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From: aw@cellar.uucp (Andrew Wason)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Calling Actions, List Widget
Message-ID: <28536@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 4 Nov 90 04:08:45 GMT
References: <1990Nov2.191421.19731@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
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In article <1990Nov2.191421.19731@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> ems@socrates.jpl.nasa.gov writes:
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>  Is it possible to call an arbitrary action of a given widget
>without sending an artificial event?  For example, based on
>a return in a Text Widget, I want to be able to call the
>"ListNextElement()" action of a list widget.  Is this possible?

You could use accelerators to make the return event in the Text
widget call the ListNextElement() action of the List widget.

However, I've found you often have to do headstands to get accelerators
to work in Motif because of all the behind the scenes stuff Motif
does for all of its keyboard traversal/menu accelerators etc.
It can be done, it's just not always straightforward.

Andrew

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Andrew Wason                                        Bell Communications Research
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Andrew Wason                                        Bell Communications Research
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