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From: kima@cs.wayne.edu (Kim Anderson)
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Date: 3 Oct 90 13:55:22 GMT
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Is anyone aware of bugs involving event propogation in the 
Motif Toolkit?  I am using Motif 1.0, X11R3, on Apollo DN3500/4500.

I am having problems adding an event handler to catch key 
press events so that they don't propagate to the parent.

There also seems to be a problem with using the override
and augment directives in a resource file when adding event
translations to a widget.  The problem here is that the 
existing translations are replaced.

*translations: #augment \n\
    Ctrl<Key>e: menu_action() \n\
    Ctrl<Key>r: menu_action()

In the above example I do get the Ctrl+e but all other translations
are totally waxed!  This translation does work if I name a specific
widget, however I need a global translation.  Accelerators won't
do the trick since the Motif Toolkit only provides accelerators
for PushButtons, and ToggleButtons in  Pulldown and Popup menus.

Presently, I have had to hardcode the translation for every 
single widget in my interface ( ugh! ).

Any ideas or similar problems?

Kim Anderson
CDI Computer Services
Ford Motor Company

Please send responses to kima@pandora.cs.wayne.edu