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From: daver@dg.dg.com (David Rudolph)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Text widget question
Keywords: Motif UIL Text
Message-ID: <688@dg.dg.com>
Date: 31 Jul 90 13:51:16 GMT
References: <258@sps.com>
Reply-To: daver@paint.dg.com (David Rudolph)
Organization: Data General, Westboro, MA.
Lines: 37

In article <258@sps.com> arm@sps.com (Annette Myjak) writes:
>
>Is there a reason why the RETURN key doesn't seem to do anything in a
>multi-line Motif Text widget?  (Specifically, it doesn't cause the input 
>cursor to go to the next line like one would expect.)  The documentation
>indicates that the translation table is set up for RETURN to perform a
>newline().
>

I have had this problem in Text widgets which were contained in dialog
shells.  It seems that when a Bulletin Board  is the child of a dialog,
it sets all its children's translation's so that the return key
activates the default button.  To change this, you have to set the
translation for the return key AFTER creating the text widget.  (UIL
alone doesn't seem to be able to do it.)  Adding the following lines
solved the problem for me.

(in declarations)

char newTrans[] = "<Key>Return: newline()";
XtTranslations transTable;

(after declarations)

transTable = XtParseTranslationTable(newTrans);

(after creating but before managing text widget)

XtOverrideTranslations(textWidget,transTable);

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