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From: tongz@MN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Tong Zheng)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems on changing borderWidth in Athena text widget & using accelerators focusing input
Message-ID: <9007021835.AA06703@mn.ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 2 Jul 90 18:35:38 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: General Consultant, ME Comp. Lab
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I need help on problems I have when I program using   
Athena Text Widget and accelerators.

The first one is trivial: 
    I am writing a program using Athena Text Widget running
with X11R4 on a SUN 4. I creat a text input window
using asciiTextWidget with type "string", and like to
have the borderwidth changed whenever the cursor moves
in/out the window. Because there is no such a default action
function in Text Widget, I make my own globe action function
to change the borderwidth resource by using XtSetValues. 
But it does not do anything to the window. Did I use the wrong
function here?  I tried to apply the same way to other widgets,
such as Command(I am using extension sharp style, the highlight()
function does not work by default), I got the same result.
Strange thing is if I change the background value instead
of changing borderwidth, it does work.

The second problem is about using accelerator:
    I have several text widgets created from a form widget.
Each text widget is a input window receiving usr input.
Whenever usr press Button1 on one of the text window,
I like to have this window selected, and all input focus
on this window(means the cursor can be anywhere in the
form widget, even in other text window, whatever the user
types all goes to the window selected).  Because user
can choose any one of text windows, I do the focus selection
in a action function when user press left mouse button.
In this action function, I treat the selected window 
as accelerator source widget, any other text windows and
form widget is destination widget. I do 
        XtInstallAllAccelerators(...
for the first one selected, it works fine.  But when second,
third, etc is selected, the focus is still on the first one 
selected.  It seems the accelerators installed by the first
one still have effect on rest of the widgets, and in the high
priority.  I could find any function to release/destroy added
accelerators.  Any hints and suggestions about this problem?


Any help is appreciated!!


P.S: Any response can be either sent to me via e-mail or posted
     on the newgroup. I will put the summary on the newsgroup
     if there is a such need.
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| Zheng, Tong                  | major: Computer Science   |
|  - student programmer, Mechanical Eng., Purdue University|
| ARPA: tongz@mn.ecn.purdue.edu  BITNET: xdpc@puccvm.BITNET|
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