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Subject: Re: Accelerator (fwd)
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Date: 26 Mar 91 13:18:34 GMT
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From: uunet!esacs!ferrara
To:   motif-talk@osf.org (Motif Talk)
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 18:16:19 ITA

Sorry if you receive twice, but for 5 days our connection to italian
backbone was broken.....

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> susan@osf.osf.org says:
> 
> > Good question - it's a difficult feature to implement, but we are
> > considering this for the future.  To assign an accelerator on a PushButton
> > not in a menu system, refer to the Xt Instrinsics documentation on
> > accelerators and translations.  
> 
> Thanks. It seems that it does not violate Style Guide.
> The only problem is that we use Xt to install accelerators but on
> Label widget Initialize method OSF puts this code:
> 
> 
>     ... some stuff deleted ...
> 
>     /* Accelerators are currently only supported in menus */
> 
>     if ((lw->label._acc_text != NULL) &&
>       ((lw->label.menu_type == XmMENU_POPUP) ||
>        (lw->label.menu_type == XmMENU_PULLDOWN)))
>      {
>               ... stuff that set the accelerator text ...
>     }
>     else
>         lw->label._acc_text = NULL;
> 
>      ... same stuff for accelerator ...
> 
>      ... other stuff deleted ...
> 
> 
>    if ((XtClass(lw) == xmLabelWidgetClass) &&
>        ((lw->label.menu_type == XmMENU_POPUP) ||
>         (lw->label.menu_type == XmMENU_PULLDOWN) ||
>         (lw->label.menu_type == XmMENU_OPTION)))
>    {
>       lw->primitive.traversal_on = FALSE;
>       lw->primitive.highlight_on_enter = FALSE;
> 
>       XtOverrideTranslations(lw,
>       ((XmLabelClassRec *)XtClass(lw))->label_class.translations);
>    }
> 
>  that makes a little hard to make accelerators working.
> 
>  I suppose that FORCING to NULL string is a constrain to respect
>  the Style guide.
> 
>  If you want to permit to install acc "not in a menu" you must remove
>  the 'else' part.
> 
> Giancarlo FERRARA
> uunet!i2unix!esacs!ferrara
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