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From: snl@edrc.cmu.edu (Sean Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Having trouble using XtAugmentTranslations()
Message-ID: <5206@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 89 22:23:33 GMT
Reply-To: snl@edrc.cmu.edu (Sean Levy)
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I've implimented a simple run-time widget resource editor. I have
things set up so that you can register an action called ResEdit that
takes two parameters: the name of a shell to create the ResEdit popup
under (typically the name of your top-level shell) and an optional
font name to use in ResEdit.  I'm able to register the action without
problem, but I'm having trouble getting it invoked by the translation
manager. I have a translation:

   static String my_translations = "Ctrl <Btn2Down>: ResEdit(foo, 9x15)";

(for instance). After I call XtInitialize() and XtAppAddActions(), I
create a popup shell with a box in it, into which I stick various
widgets (one of my own devising, a couple Athena Label and Command
widgets). After every XtCreateManagedWidget(), I immediately do an
XtAugmentTranslations() with my translations (which compiled fine, I
believe -- how do you tell?  the type XtTranslations is opaque...).

All of this augmenting is, however, to no avail, as the
Ctrl/Button2Down sequence does not even call have the desired effect
(ResEdit never even gets called).  I've tried various other sequences
(Meta-E, various modifiers on various buttonpresses), all with no
effect. As it stands, I have to wire a Command widget to a callback
that explicitly calls the resource editor proper on a particular
widget (well, I _could_ play with that), which is grody and surely
uneccessary...

What am I doing wrong?

TIA,

sean levy - research programmer / engineering design research center / cmu
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