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From: gjf00@duts.ccc.amdahl.com (Gordon Freedman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Easy way to change translations for all text widgets in an app?
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Date: 2 Mar 91 03:03:49 GMT
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In article <1991Feb27.155939.22542@ncsu.edu> sam@gyro.cc.ncsu.edu (Sam Moore) writes:
>I would like to add an entry to my .Xdefaults to change the translations
>for all of the text widgets in a specific application. Is there an easy
>way of doing this. Currently I have setup a #define with the translations
>that I want. I apply that definition to each text widget. I would like
>to enter one line and have it affect all of the text widgets for this
>application.
>
>cem*messageText.translations:    #override\
>        Ctrl<Key>f:     forward-character()\n\
>        Ctrl<Key>b:     backward-character()\n\
>        Meta<Key>f:     forward-word()\n\
>        etc...
>
>This is the way that I have been doing it. I would like to do something like:
>
>cem*text.translations:  etc..
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sam
>--
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------  
>        | Sam Moore | Sam_Moore@ncsu.edu | NCSU Computing Center | 
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Try this:

cem*XmText.translations:	#override\
	Ctrl<Key>f:	forward-character()\n\
	etc...

Hope this works for you, I haven't tried this exact resource, but have
specified resources for classes using Xm<Class> to specify the class. 
--
Gordon Freedman: gjf00@duts.ccc.amdahl.com
Disclaimer: My opinions! Not my employers!