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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Context Sensitive Help
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Date: 9 Jan 91 00:49:44 GMT
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> respond to their help callbacks.  It seems as if the selected 
> widgets grabs and interprets *any* help callbacks
> preventing the other non-selectable widgets from theirs!
> 
> I've tried to define and use translations to get around it with no success.
> Any ideas?  *ALL* appreciated!

As far as I can tell the help callback *always* goes to the
widget with the keyboard focus.  This makes it impossible to
get help on anything that doesn't get the focus, and it also
makes mouse-based help impossible.  I've complained about this
but I haven't heard an answer either.