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From: gjr@information-systems.east-anglia.ac.uk
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Subject: Translations for Xaw scrollbar widgets
Message-ID: <15152.9104090800@sys.uea.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Apr 91 09:02:15 GMT
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I've been trying to get the Athena scrollbar widget to operate with a one
button mouse (yes, I'm using a Mac). Using a simple test program with the
following translations everything works as I want.

*Scrollbar.Translations: #override \n\
  !Shift<Btn1Down>: StartScroll(Backward) \n\
  !Ctrl<Btn1Down>: StartScroll(Continuous) MoveThumb() NotifyThumb() \n\
  !Ctrl<Btn1Motion>: MoveThumb() NotifyThumb()

But, when I put *VT100 in front of that and try it for an xterm, the xterm
main menu pops up on Ctrl<Btn1Down>, no matter where the pointer is in the
xterm (e.g. over the scrollbar). If I force the VT100 to ignore the
Ctrl<Btn1Down> event then with this condition nothing happens and no event
reaches the scrollbar.

Is there a way of getting the above translations to work with xterm or
should I seek another method. I tried it briefly with accelerators as well
but also had no luck.

Thanks,
 Graham.

p.s. What I really wanted was shift btn1down to scroll back, and double
click btn1down to begin continuous scrolling, but the scrollbar gets a bit
confused.


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