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From: raney@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Scott Raney)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Highlighting text fields upon entering
Keywords: text, highlight
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Date: 11 Dec 90 17:21:52 GMT
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Using the focus callback won't work (you can't distinguish tabbing to
the field from clicking in it).  The only answer is to override the
tab translations.  Unfortunately Motif 1.0's translation (and
tabgroup) stuff is so broken I was never able to get it to work.  With
1.1, you should be able to override the tab translation, then do the
XmSelect stuff in your own action handler.

Why OSF didn't design the widget to operate this way in the first
place (as the Mac and MS-Windows equivalents do) is beyond me.  There
are going to be a lot of user interface inconsistencies because of
this weakness.

Scott
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