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.TH XmUpdateDisplay 3X "" "" "" ""
.ds )H Hewlett-Packard Company
.ds ]W Motif Release 1.2: May 1992
.SH NAME
\fIXmUpdateDisplay\fP \- A function that processes all pending exposure events immediately
.SH SYNOPSIS
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void XmUpdateDisplay\fI (\fBwidget\fI)
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	Widget	\fBwidget\fI;
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fIXmUpdateDisplay\fP provides the application with a mechanism for forcing all
pending exposure events to be removed from the input queue and processed immediately.
When a user selects a button within a MenuPane, the MenuPanes are
unposted and then any activation callbacks registered by the application
are invoked.  If one of the callbacks performs a time-consuming action,
the portion of the application window that was covered by the MenuPanes
will not have been redrawn; normal exposure processing does not occur until
all of the callbacks have been invoked.  If the
application writer  suspects that a callback
will take a long time, then the callback may choose to invoke
\fIXmUpdateDisplay\fP before starting its time-consuming operation.
This function is also useful any time a transient window, such as a dialog box, is unposted;
callbacks are invoked before normal exposure processing can occur.
.IP "\fBwidget\fP"
Specifies any widget or gadget.