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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Keyboard input in multiple text widgets
Message-ID: <141184@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 23 Aug 90 00:14:51 GMT
References: <6597@milton.u.washington.edu>
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In article <6597@milton.u.washington.edu> subaru@milton.u.washington.edu (Steve Chen) writes:
> 
> 	I have set up a pop-up window like below:
> 	+--------------------------------------------------+
> 	|                   +------------------------+     |
> 	|     User Name:    |   Text Widget 1        |     |
> 	|                   +------------------------+     |
> 	|                   +------------------------+     |
> 	|     Password:     |   Text Widget 2        |     |
> 	|                   +------------------------+     |
> 	+--------------------------------------------------+

Reader wants Return to toggle between the two items....

(I assume these text widgets are simple-line editing widgets...)
Set up a callback for your text widgets:
    XtAddCallback(textw1, XmNactivateCallback, next_item, textw2);
    XtAddCallback(textw2, XmNactivateCallback, next_item, textw1);

The function next_item() looks like:

void
next_item(w, client_data)
Widget w, client_data;
{
    XSetInputFocus(XtDisplay(client_data), XtWindow(client_data),
	RevertToParent, CurrentTime);
}

In your simple example, however, you could just add the two text
widgets to a tab group:
    XmAddTabGroup(textw1);
    XmAddTabGroup(textw2);
Then, TAB will take you back and forth -- you could even add
a translation table that makes Return go to the next tab group.
But my first solution above will work in more general cases
because it doesn't make any assumptions about the tab group
and how many other items might be in those groups.

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dan
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