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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Question about DecWindows and KeyPress Event
Keywords: DecWindows, KeyPress
Message-ID: <1990Oct22.140402@wsl.dec.com>
Date: 22 Oct 90 21:04:02 GMT
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In article <70157@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, mking@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Marianne King) writes:
|> I am experimenting with the KeyPress event.  I set up the event handler
|> by calling XtAddEventHandler with the KeyPressMask.  When I run my
|> program on a Sun and I press a key, the event is recognized.  My
|> problem occurs when my client machine is a Sun and my server machine is
|> a DecStation 3100 running Ultrix 4.0 and DecWindows.

XtAddEventHandler works properly for me.  Are you setting your input
hints properly?  ICCCM-complaint window managers require that it be set
for keyboard input to be reported.  Your Sun may have an older or
non-compliant window manager that ignores the input hint.

-- 
Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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