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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Text Widget In Popup Dialog
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Date: 31 Aug 90 23:03:52 GMT
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In article <1990Aug31.171033.24291@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> ems@socrates.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
>   I have a single-line Text widget inside of a popup Form Dialog
> and am having problems with the activate callback, which
> is supposed to be called when the user presses return. Namely,
> it doesn't respond.

The Form Widget is subclassed from the BulletinBoard widget..
When the BB widget is the child of a DialogShell widget (which
sounds like the case you noted above), the normal translation
table for the text dialog is overriden by the XmNtextTranslations
resource of the dialog.  This means that your text widget isn't
going to work as you expected.  You can do several things: get the
translation you want and reinstall it after you've created the widget
as a child of the Form, or you can create an intermediate compisite
widget (a rowcolumn, bulletin-board, form, etc) as a child of the
Form and make the text widget a child of that new composite widget.

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dan
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