Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!po
From: po@cs.utexas.edu (Po Ling Cheung)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems with Athena Text widget
Keywords: Athena Text Widget
Message-ID: <3874@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 8 Nov 88 21:26:20 GMT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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How do you modify the translation table of an asciiString text widget to
disable most of the editing facilites provided by defaultTranslations[]
so that the user can insert and delete characters only from the end of
the current line?  Yet the user should be able to do text selection.

My major problems are to prevent deleting text past current line, and
to disable insertion/deletion at any arbitrary position.

Another question :  Is there any way you can associate some kind of
file input with the text widget so that you can read whatever is entered
into the text widget just like reading from a terminal?

Would someone give me a hint, please ???

Thanx,
  Po