X11 error from home grown application

[Geoffrey]

Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 15:54:50 -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>> Anyone know where I can start looking to figure out why I'm getting
>> the following error in our application:
>>
>> X Error of failed request:  BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
>>   Major opcode of failed request:  42 (X_SetInputFocus)
>>   Serial number of failed request:  7398113
>>   Current serial number in output stream:  7398114
>>
> Quoting from XSetInputFocus(3):
>        The specified focus window must be viewable at the time XSetInputFocus
>        is called, or a BadMatch error results.

Can you define 'viewable'?

> 
> Cheers,
> Julien
> 


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