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In article <1993Jan11.162326.27272@meadow.uucp> alo@meadow.uucp (Andrew Lo) writes:

   Hi! I'm a widget programmer.  I have created a widget in which under certain
   circumstances I need the widget to grab all button presses for the entire
   screen.  Thus far, I have achieved this by using XtGrabPointer followed by
   an XAllowEvents.  I have an event handler for the widget that intercepts all
   the button press events at this time.  This works.  
   However, when I press a cascade button it takes the grab away from me without 
   me calling XtUngrabPointer.  How do I prevent this from happening.?  
   Please email me directly.

I don't believe you can prevent this.  Grabs transfer if something else 
requests one.  I do suggest that you consider why you are imposing
a grab.  Grabs should be used very sparingly,  if at all,  in 
normal widgets.  The usual exceptions are modal behaviors such
as popup or pulldown menus.  

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