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From: kahlers@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Problem with Translation Management
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Date: 16 Aug 90 20:57:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!kahlers    Aug 16 15:57:00 1990



                    Problems with Translation Management
                       under the Xt Intrinsics...

     Background : I create a widget with some default translations
                  under the Motif toolkit and need to repeatedly
                  change the translations on the widget during its
                  life. The translations that I need are created
                  using the XtParseTranslations(""), and stored
                  in 'static' locations in subroutines all over the
                  place. Now within the subroutine I use 
                     XtUninstallTranslations(w) ---- (1)
                  followed by 
                     XtOverrideTranslations(w)  ---- (2) 
                  install a new set of translations on the widget.
                  The current source is based on an Apollo 4500 
                  running SR10.2 with Motif V1.0.

   Problem     :  The creation of the translation table from the
                  corresponding "string" seems to work very well (at least
                  the program does not crash !#@%%!!). But for some
                  reason, quite sporadically, when I try to uninstall
                  the translations ( using (1) ) and override them 
                  using (2), the program crashes. The behaviour is not
                  very consistant either...

   
           Anybody seen something like this before...or any ideas. 

           Thanx guys...   

                  
                 
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