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From: ckl@uwbln.UUCP (Christoph Kuenkel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: XLookupString status argument nyi
Message-ID: <2464@uwbull.uwbln.UUCP>
Date: 4 Sep 90 09:47:09 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: UniWare GmbH, Berlin
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We were using Motif 1.0.n on a DECstation using DECs Xlib.  Composing
diacritical characters such as german ``umlaut'' using the compose
key worked just fine.  After porting that to a triton computer using
the original Xr4 Xlib, the compose key did not work anymore.  We found
that this seems to be due to the the status argument of
XtLookupString() being not implemented in Xr4.


	int XLookupString (event, buffer, nbytes, keysym, status)
	register XKeyEvent *event;
	char *buffer;  /* buffer */
	int nbytes;    /* space in buffer for characters */
	KeySym *keysym;
	XComposeStatus *status;    /* not implemented */
	{
	....
		/* lots of dragons ... */
	....
	}

is this a dec proprietary extension or is the code in the public domain?
any other workarounds?

christoph

btw: the manual states that status is not implemented in release 1 or 2 :-)



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