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XtSetSensitive(3Xt)                  BSD                   XtSetSensitive(3Xt)



NAME
     XtSetSensitive, XtIsSensitive - set and check a widget's sensitivity
     state

SYNTAX
     void XtSetSensitive(w, sensitive)
           Widget w;
           Boolean sensitive;

     Boolean XtIsSensitive(w)
          Widget w;

ARGUMENTS
     sensitive Specifies a Boolean value that indicates whether the widget
               should receive keyboard and pointer events.

     w         Specifies the widget.

DESCRIPTION
     The XtSetSensitive function first calls XtSetValues on the current widget
     with an argument list specifying that the sensitive field should change
     to the new value.  It then recursively propagates the new value down the
     managed children tree by calling XtSetValues on each child to set the
     ancestor_sensitive to the new value if the new values for sensitive and
     the child's ancestor_sensitive are not the same.

     XtSetSensitive calls XtSetValues to change sensitive and
     ancestor_sensitive.  Therefore, when one of these changes, the widget's
     set_values procedure should take whatever display actions are needed (for
     example, greying out or stippling the widget).

     XtSetSensitive maintains the invariant that if parent has either
     sensitive or ancestor_sensitive False, then all children have
     ancestor_sensitive False.

     The XtIsSensitive function returns True or False to indicate whether or
     not user input events are being dispatched.  If both core.sensitive and
     core.ancestor_sensitive are True, XtIsSensitive returns True; otherwise,
     it returns False.

SEE ALSO
     X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
     Xlib - C Language X Interface

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