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From: marbru@attc.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Easy way to change translations for all text widgets in an app?
Message-ID: <1210@attc.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 91 19:23:16 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.155939.22542@ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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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

    Dont' do it in .Xdefaults, please. Use application-class resource
    files. Dumping resources into .Xdefaults is one of the worst habbits
    in X-world.

>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\
>        etc...
>
Have you tried:

cem*XmText.translations: ....

(where XmText is the *class* name of the text widget, note that text
 field is a different class ... )


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