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From: nikoulis@venice.ecs.umass.edu (panos Nikoulis)
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Subject: Text editing / Command line arguments for Motif applications
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Date: 1 Jun 91 00:15:28 GMT
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Folks,

I have two problems with Motif text widgets :

(1) The <Delete> key does not work as expected.  Pressing it causes the 
    character to the *right* of the cursor to be deleted.  This makes the 
    <Delete> key useless when one wants to erase tha last character typed 
    (one has to use the mouse or the arrow keys to move the cursor first).

(2) One cannot use the <Space> key while pressing the <Shift> key.  (The 
    <Space> key simply does not work.)

I had these problems in the text areas of the XmPromptDialogs that I created 
for my application (on a DECstation 2100).

Another problem :  Using the standard command-line arguments to set the 
foreground and background colors does not seem to work (Motif ignores the 
color settings that I am specifying).  The piece os code that I am using to 
initialize my display is as follows :

  XtToolkitInitialize();
  app_context = XtCreateApplicationContext();
  display = XtOpenDisplay(app_context, NULL,
			  argv[0], "XMdemos", NULL, 0, &argc, argv);
  if (!display) { 
    printf("Unable to open display\n"); 
    exit(0); 
  }

The display opens successfully, but the colors are not right.  The same code 
works fine in some of the Motif demo programs (e.g. xmlist) that I tried !

Any hints would be extremely helpful and appreciated.

Thanks,

--Panos Nikoulis
  Project Pilgrim
  University of Massachusetts, Amherst