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From: argv@turnpike.Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Heller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Accelerators
Message-ID: <144248@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 90 03:02:19 GMT
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In article <27685@usc.edu> curtz@skat.usc.edu (Curtz Lam) writes:
> 	I am trying to use accelerators to activate some push bottons
> from anywhere within my application.  I installed the accelarators with
> XtInstallAccelerators and specfied them as resources for the
> particular push button widgets, but nothing seems to happen.

As I understand it, you cannot use the default Xt accelerator stuff
in Motif applications because it completely takes over that area in
its effort to process keyboard terversal, menus, and its own accelerators.
I haven't tried real hard, but the basic stuff didn't work for me
either.  I simply just "gave in" and used the Motif accelerator
machanism.  I'm not saying it's impossible --just that it's not
straightforward.  I can't say anything definitive--someone from OSF
should do that.
--
dan
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