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From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Can't Override Translation
Keywords: Action Procedure, Translation, Override
Message-ID: <1991Jan4.160401.21666@smsc.sony.com>
Date: 4 Jan 91 16:04:01 GMT
References: <1113@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM>
Sender: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Reply-To: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
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In article <1113@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM>, paul@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Paul Siu) writes:
|> I am trying to customize a widget using the translation table.  A number of
|> keys refused to be change though.  Let's say I want the F2 key to set off
|> the button "btn", I can add this to my application resource file.
|> 
|> *btn.translations:     #override\n\
|>    <Key>F2:        ArmAndActivate()\n\
|> 
|> This works fine for the key "F2".  When I press F2, the button is armed,
|> and activated.  When I try to use "F1" or "Delete", or "BackSpace", it
|> doesn't work.  Why?

I'm a little confused.

Are you saying that if you change the above to

*btn.translations:     #override\n\
    <Key>Delete:        ArmAndActivate()\n\

it doesn't arm and activate the button, or are you saying that after
adding the above translations that the exsiting translations for F1,
Delete, and BackSpace no longer work?

Also, is this a customization via your .Xdefaults, or via the
application's app-defaults file?  If .Xdefaults, does the application
already have "*btn" translations?

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