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From: siebers@catalonia.sw.mcc.com (Greg Siebers)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Using the Xt Translation Manager with XView
Message-ID: <5196@catalonia.sw.mcc.com>
Date: 21 May 91 19:01:55 GMT
Reply-To: siebers@catalonia.sw.mcc.com ()
Organization: MCC, Austin, Texas
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We have an XView application with which we would like to use the Xt Intrinsics'
Translation Manager to assign action procedures to user-specified input events.
I was wondering if someone else had attempted this already, or if anyone had
some idea of how difficult this task might be.  I assume that I will not be
able to do something as simple as calling the following functions during
start-up:

        XtToolkitInitialize()  to initialize data structures

        somehow create an Xt widget out of an XView window

        XtAddActions()  to register the action procedures

        XtParseTranslationTable()  to compile the translation table

        XtAugmentTranslations()  to install the compiled translations

and then calling XtDispatchEvent() -- or perhaps _XtTranslateEvent() -- from
the XView WIN_EVENT_PROC to see whether the current event can be dispatched to
an action procedure.

If there is no chance of (something like) the above working, do you think that
the best approach would be to reproduce the Translation Manager functionality
in the application code -- perhaps using as much of the Xt Intrinsics TM code
as possible?

Thanks very much for your advice.

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