XtCreatePopupShell(Xt) X Version 11 (Release 5) XtCreatePopupShell(Xt)
6 January 1993
Name
XtCreatePopupShell - create a pop-up shell
Syntax
Widget XtCreatePopupShell(name, widget_class, parent, args, num_args)
String name;
WidgetClass widget_class;
Widget parent;
ArgList args;
Cardinal num_args;
Arguments
args Specifies the argument list to override the resource defaults.
name Specifies the text name for the created shell widget.
numargs Specifies the number of arguments in the argument list.
parent Specifies the parent widget.
widgetclass
Specifies the widget class pointer for the created shell
widget.
Description
The XtCreatePopupShell function ensures that the specified class is a
subclass of Shell and, rather than using insert_child to attach the
widget to the parent's children list, attaches the shell to the parent's
pop-ups list directly.
A spring-loaded pop-up invoked from a translation table already must
exist at the time that the translation is invoked, so the translation
manager can find the shell by name. Pop-ups invoked in other ways can be
created ``on-the-fly'' when the pop-up actually is needed. This delayed
creation of the shell is particularly useful when you pop up an unspeci-
fied number of pop-ups. You can look to see if an appropriate unused
shell (that is, not currently popped up) exists and create a new shell if
needed.
See also
XtCreateWidget(Xt), XtPopdown(Xt) and XtPopup(Xt).
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
Xlib - C Language X Interface