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From: garys@earth.cchem.berkeley.edu (Gary Shea)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: accelerator problem
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Date: 5 Aug 89 09:47:06 GMT
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Reply-To: garys@earth.cchem.berkeley.edu (Gary Shea)
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I am using the Dialog widget as a simple prompt for a file name,
with a "Confirm" button for the user to press when the filename
is right.  I'd like pressing Return within the prompt string
(the Dialog widget's "value" Text widget child) to be equivalent
to pressing the "Confirm" button.

The problem is that if the Text widget has an action in its
translation table for the Return key, it will not allow the
accelerator to override it, i.e. the following does not work:

xf*value.translations: #replace\n\
    Ctrl<Key>U: beginning-of-line() kill-to-end-of-line()\n\
    Ctrl<Key>H: delete-previous-character()\n\
    <Key>: insert-char()
xf*confirm.accelerators: #override \n\
    <Key>Return: set() notify() unset()

If I remove the "<Key>: insert-char()" part of the Text widget's
translation table, then the accelerator works.  The only "solution"
I have found is to individually place each possible filename
character in the translation table for the Text widget (blecch):

    <Key>a: insert-char()
    <Key>b: insert-char()

etc. 

Is this a bug, have i missed something in ye olde FM, is there
A Better Way?  TIA...
gary