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From: asente@adobe.com (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Calling Actions from Actions
Message-ID: <11800@adobe.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 91 19:31:44 GMT
References: <38437@netnews.upenn.edu>
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In article <38437@netnews.upenn.edu> corry@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Chris Corry) writes:
>     I didn't think it would work but I wrote an action (MyDeleteChar) and
>replaced the "delete-previous-char" action with it. Then I tried to directly
>call DeleteBackwardChar (found in the private widget code) from my action if
>needed. 

You're 90% there.  Rather than directly calling DeleteBackwardChar, you should
use XtCallActionProc and pass it the string name of the action you want to
invoke.  Action procedures are usually declared static in the widget
implementation file.

	-paul asente
		asente@adobe.com	...decwrl!adobe!asente