[Info-vax] DECwindows: keep a window always on top?

[George Cook]

In article <h8to0b$6lh$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
> The "workstation locked" "window" is always on top when present, covering
> everything.  Is there any way of figuring out how it does this and doing
> the same thing in an otherwise "normal" window?  Or is it done in a
> way that's completely different and not doable by normal windows?
> 
> Just a thought.

My first guess would be that it sets the XmBulletinBoard's
XmNdialogStyle resource to XmDIALOG_SYSTEM_MODAL.  That Motif
modality setting prevents the user from interacting with all
other applications.

XmDIALOG_FULL_APPLICATION_MODAL prevents the user from
interacting with any other window of that application.

XmDIALOG_PRIMARY_APPLICATION_MODAL prevents the user from
interacting with the parent window of the dialog.

The default when the parent is a DialogShell is XmDIALOG_MODELESS
(i.e., no modality).


George Cook
WVNET