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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
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References: <110@tityus.UUCP> <19880811122201.8.RWS@KILLINGTON.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: jim@athsys.UUCP (Jim Becker)
Organization: Athena Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA
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>	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