XtCreatePopupShell(3Xt)

NAME
XtCreatePopupShell - create a popup 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.

num_args
    Specifies the number of arguments in the argument list.

parent
    Specifies the parent widget.

widget_class
    Specifies the widget class pointer for the created shell widget.

DESCRIPTION
The function ensures that the specified class is a subclass of 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 unspecified 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(3Xt), XtPopdown(3Xt), XtPopup(3Xt)
X Toolkit Intrinsics - C Language Interface
Xlib - C Language X Interface