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From: wtm%gr.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Thomas McCollough)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Activating Help Callbacks for Insensitive Widgets
Message-ID: <1991May13.225657.820@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 14 May 91 04:56:57 GMT
Organization: Engineering Geometry Systems
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The FAQ says that only widgets that can have the focus can have their
help callbacks activated with the help key (F1).  Does this mean that
I can't get help for a widget that is insensitive (grayed out)?

We make heavy use of XtSetSensitive() by graying out push buttons that
make no sense given the current selected set.  The push buttons I refer
to are in pulldown menus of the main menu bar.  During our initial
design we expected that the user could ask for help on the grayed out
widget to find out what is required to light it up.  Did we goof?

I can't seem to give the focus to insensitive widgets by using keyboard
traversal.  And implementing "Help on Context" hasn't worked because I
can't pull down a menu when XmTrackingLocate() has grabbed the mouse.
Am I out of luck?

Thanks,
Tom McCollough
wtm@gr.utah.edu