Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!syntron!jtsv16!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ames!vsi1!daver!athsys!jim From: jim@athsys.uucp (Jim Becker) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Determining validity/type of unknown XIDs - how ?? Message-ID: <115@tityus.UUCP> Date: 11 Aug 88 23:25:15 GMT Article-I.D.: tityus.115 References: <110@tityus.UUCP> <19880811122201.8.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> Reply-To: jim@athsys.UUCP (Jim Becker) Organization: Athena Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA Lines: 28 > In article <19880811122201.8.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU> RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler) writes: >> It is a window ID that has been created but has >> not yet "stablized" for X calls. > I don't really understand what this means. Apparently there is some lapse in time from when a window is created within a display and the XID registered for all displays to use. This is just a guess, given that the same operations work with one display in the program. I have not had any simialiar problems with a single display based X program. >> By the way, those planning on using Interviews as a product base may >> want to reconsider their plans. It really isn't a good idea. > I hope you are providing constructive technical feedback to the authors > of InterViews, so they can improve and/or defend themselves. My company has been tightly-coupled with the Interviews guys at Stanford; our product is currently based off of a modified Interviews package. We have extensively modified it and layered on top of it. -Jim Becker