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From: converse@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Donna Converse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Translations and Accelerators
Message-ID: <8910261857.AA10847@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 89 18:57:49 GMT
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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> I want to bind string translations to menu actions.  For concreteness,
> assume I pop up a menu with two items: "start" and "stop".  I'd like
> to be able to type "sta" to invoke the first and "sto" to select the
> second.
> 
> Query 1:  Should the translation table:
> 
> 	"<Key>s,<Key>t,<Key>a: Start()\n
> 	 <Key>s,<Key>t,<Key>o: Stop()\n"
> 
> 	invoke the appropriate actions when installed on the menu widget?

With a backslash at the end of the first line, you can specify this
as the definition of the Accelerator resource of your menu widget in
an application default file, and yes, you can have 3-key accelerators.

The accelerator source widget is the menu widget, and the acclerator
destination widget is where ever those accelerators are defined, where
ever you expect the keyboard sequence "sta" to execute the Start action.