Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

573.0. "Dialog Boxes and the 'style' option...." by CSC32::S_HALL (Gimme a DEC PC & a bear with a radio) Tue Apr 11 1989 11:35

    I'm a novice at this DECwindows, biz, so apologies in advance if
    I'm missing something really basic....
    
    	I'm having a devil of a time using a dialog-box.  I've
    initialized the toolkit (XtInitialize), and try to create
    either an attached-dialog-box (DwtAttachedDB or DwtDialogBox)
    as a child and get errors:
    
    	1) If I'm using DwtDialogBox, and specify any 'style' value
    	   but Workarea, the window manager gets blown away !  My
    	   application doesn't fail, tho.
    
    	2) If I use DwtAttachedDB, and specify any 'style' value
    	   but Workarea, I get an access violation at address
    	   042c0000 hex.
    
    	I thought that DwtModeless / DwtModal were legal ?
    
    	Any hints would be appreciated....
    
    
    	Steve h

    
    I was directed to a response in another conference.  This is a 
    known problem, to be fixed "in a future release" of DECwindows.
    
    See HARBOR::DECWINDOWS_PROGRAMMING, Note 158.
    
    Steve H

I have a problem with a popupDB which may be related to earlier replies
(or may not!!!!).

I have a popupDB which is Fetched(once only) and Managed by a mailbox AST.

Is there a restriction on what I can do within an AST since the only way the
DB comes up is with style = DwtModal; style = DwtModeless fails.  Since I'd
like a ModelessDB I'm somewhat stuck!!

Kevin S.

The toolkit is not AST re-entrant.  NONE of it can be called from AST level.

Leo