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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Translation Table Mgmt Part II
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Date: 13 Nov 89 13:29:30 GMT
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> 1.  How do I set tm_table to my default translation table?

Assuming you are the writer of the widget class, then you
assign the (String) pointer either in the static class record
declaration or in the class_initialize procedure.  If you
aren't the widget class writer, then you shouldn't be changing
this field (but if you do, do it before the class_part_initialize
stage :-).

> 2.  Why can't I get the following to work?

XtSetValues will not do type conversion; defaultTextTranslations
is of type char[], and the XtNtranslations resource is of type
XtTranslations.  You'll have to do the conversion explicitly;
in this case by calling XtParseTranslationTable (which is merely
a short-hand for a more tedious XtConvert call).

> I should not have to redefine it??

defaultTextTranslations is not actually declared in any of the Xaw
header files, so you at least need to declare it to let the compiler
know what to do.

> if I do, how should
> I load both tables in the beginning?

You should specify your own table beginning with "#override" or
"#augment", as appropriate and declare it as the value of the
.translations resource in your app-defaults file.  Xt will
merge your own table with the Text widget default table automatically.