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I am having trouble after I execute 

XtcreatePopupShell("hello",overrideShellWidgetClass,box,NULL,0);

	XtPopup(popshell,GrabExclusive);

then later:
	XtPopdown(popshell);


In that my asciistring widgets just 'freeze' i.e don't respond to 
keyboard inputs (responds to  mouse selections...);
All other widgets are ok and other text widgets
in other 'top' shells of the program are ok.
The popup shell contains a menu of commands and works fine.

NOTE: 
This happens even with XtGrabNone and XtGrabNonExclusive
and when I use other shells such as transient or toplevel
I am using version R3  on a Sun (it will take a month before
we get R4). I an using Athena the widgets.