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From: mark@ks25.UUCP (Mark Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: DECwindows PushButton sensitivity problem
Message-ID: <602@ks25.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 91 15:54:38 GMT
Reply-To: mark@ks25.UUCP (Mark Johnson)
Organization: RR Donnelley & Sons CPS Development, Lisle, IL
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We have a large application written using the DECwindows toolkit
(v 4.0). The application has a large number of PushButtons many
of which have accelerators. Under certain conditions it is
necessary that we disable some of these PushButtons. We do this
by making the PushButtons insensitive. However, we have found
that pressing the accelerator key for an insensitive PushButton
still causes the activate callback for that PushButton to be
executed.

Is this a bug or have we missed something? Is there some way to
disable the accelerator? Can we then re-enable the accelerator
at a later time?

In certain cases we make the PushButton insensitive by means of a
resource in a resource file. Can we disable the accelerator via a
resource? We would prefer to be able to disable both the 
PushButton and its associated accelerator with a single resource,
but we can deal with multiple resources if necessary.

Thank you

Mark			decwrl!ks25!mark