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From: chapman@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Carol Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,ba.windows.x,llnl.x
Subject: XmText problem/question re. cursor movement
Keywords: Motif 1.1, C, XmText, cursor positioning
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Date: 25 Apr 91 17:51:48 GMT
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I am using Motif 1.1 and C.  I have a formdialog widget with a number
of children, including 3 XmText widgets.  The text widgets were all
created in UIL code and are basically identical.  They are not
behaving the way I would expect.  When the formdialog appears, only
the middle text widget shows a cursor.  It is a carrot-shaped cursor
(^).  If I click in any of the text widgets, the cursor moves to that
location, but if I enter text, the text is forced to the beginning of
the text widget (position 0).  I used XmTextSetString to put initial
values into each of the widgets, and I read that that sets the
insertion point to position 0, but once the user clicks somewhere
else, shouldn't the cursor change to a text cursor (I) and the text be
inserted there automatically?

A co-worker has a small program somewhat similar to mine, but his
works as expected.  We compared our code searching for differences,
but don't see anything that would seem to account for this.  I figure
I must have some resource set incorrectly somewhere but I don't see
it.  At this time, the only "callback" I've set is MrmNcreateCallback.
The resources set for each text widget are: x, y, width, height,
topAttachment, leftAttachment, leftOffset, topOffset, resizeWidth (True)
maxLength, autoShowCursorPosition (True), columns,
cursorPositionVisible (True), editable (True), editMode
(SINGLE_LINE_EDIT).

If anyone has any ideas as to what's wrong, I'd love to hear from you!

thanx,
carol
Carol Chapman                                        Tel. (415) 423-7876
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