Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aspect!jeff
From: jeff@aspect.UUCP (Jeff Rosler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Registered Actions coupled with KeyBoard Focus
Keywords: translations
Message-ID: <2893@aspect.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jul 90 15:19:21 GMT
Organization: Aspect Telecommunications, San Jose, Ca
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I tried to email this directly, but it bounced, so here it is.

>...
>
> 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.


Well, the translations resource is specified in the Core widget class, so
I would say this problem can happen in multiple widget toolkits (at least
those that are X Intrinsics based).  Your problem is that you did not
specify a directive in the translation table.  If no directive is specified
#replace is used.  This replaces your translation table with the default one.
You probably want to use #override.  This tells the widget to merge the
new translations into the current translation table and replace any old
values where there is a conflict.  So, you might change your specification
from

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

                                        to

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

This should clear up your problem.  Translations are explained in detail
in "X Toolkit Intrinsics Programming Manual".  This is Volume 4 of the
O'Reilly & Associates X Window series (ISBN 0-937175-34-X).  I highly
recommend this book as well as the entire series.

Have fun!


Jeff Rosler
Aspect Telecommunications
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