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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

710.0. "Timers in DECwindows" by ULTRA::WRAY (John Wray, Secure Systems Development) Mon May 01 1989 16:36

    Is there a way to queue timer requests through DECwindows? 
    
    I have an application that needs to highlight a portion of a DECterm
    widget for a short time, just to get the user's attention.  What I need
    is to be able to set some sort of timer to let me know when I can
    de-highlight it again.  I could use a VMS-provided timer AST, but I'm
    not sure how DECwindows will take being called from an AST routine
    (I've avoided reading the notes about DECwindows at AST level so far).
    Anyway, that's a very VMS-specific solution. 

    Does the toolkit or Xlib support timers?  Anything that's usable at the
    high-level interface, or do I have to start talking down at the Xlib
    level (something else I've studiously avoided so far ;-)   Maybe
    somebody out there's written a timer widget?

    John

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
710.1	XtAppAddTimeOut	SMAUG::FLOWERS	IBM Interconnect Eng. 226-7716	`Mon May 01 1989 16:42`	2
	Yup...XtAppAddTimeOut.