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From: razdan@chanakya.oakhill.uucp (Anshuman Razdan)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Registered Actions coupled with KeyBoard Focus
Message-ID: <RAZDAN.90Jul10134425@chanakya.oakhill.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 90 18:44:25 GMT
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Organization: Motorola Inc., SPS CAD, Austin, Texas.
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Hi,
	I have a interesting situation to which I cannot seem to find an answer.
Although I am using the HP widgets, this seems to do more with toolkit actions rather
than belonging to a widget set.

	Anyways, I have an application that has a text widget (permanent) for user I/O
and keyboard input.  The text widget occupies a small area of the application and is in the
bottom 2/5th of the application as shown in the figure

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	To make it easier on the users, I use XtKeyBoardFocus for the topmost 
widget (and therefore all the otherewidgets to text widget) so that no matter 
where the cursor is, the keyboard input willgo to the Text widget.  So far so 
good.  It works.  Now what I want to do is add actions
to various functionalities of the application. So in the defaults file I say

 mpost*TExttWidget.translations:    <Key>F1 :   Zoomin()

	where TexttWidget is the name of the text widget.  I use XtAddActions to 
register thezoomin action with toolkit.

Now the problem : When I use translations in defaults file it overwrites(or 
seems to override)the default translations that are in the text widget.  
Therefore resulting in that I cannot type in any letter in the text widget,
with or without keyboard focus on.  If I comment out the line in the defaults 
file every thing seems to be fine.  Is there a way that both translations
can live side by side.  In other words augment the translations.  Or is there another
way to achieve the same thing.
	Please email me the pointers or hints or if your extremely kind to the 
solution or possible solution.  Thanks in advance.

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Anshuman Razdan					Motorola
						Sector CAD
Internal: razdan@chanakya			Austin Tx
Internet: razdan@chanakya.sps.mot.com

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