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From: jdn@europa.Eng.Sun.COM (Jeff Nisewanger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: HELP NEEDED: Motif widgets under OpenWindows(xnews)
Keywords: motif, DrawingArea widget, KeyPress event, xnews
Message-ID: <137984@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 27 Jun 90 22:39:35 GMT
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In article <1696@island.uu.net> jj@island.uu.net (JJ Chuang) writes:
>Does any one out there know of how to get the keyboard event on a 
>Motif DrawingArea widget running under OpenWindows(version 2 beta)?
>
>My problem was that I could not get the keyboard event out of my 
>DrawingArea widget window. I received all other events(Motion, Button,...).
>I also tried to set the window manager hints as suggested on page 18 of the
>"X11/NeWS Server Guide" but got no luck.
>
>Any solutions, suggestions or hints will be highly appreciated.
>
>-- 
>	jj@isalnd.uu.net	ph:(415)491-1000(work)

	There was a bug in version 2-beta with distributing keyboard events
to windows that had the keyboard event specified in the do-not-propagate mask.
Unfortunately, Motif makes use of do-not-propagate masks.
This bug will be fixed in the final 2.0 release.



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