Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!watnext!jmberkley
From: jmberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu (J. Michael Berkley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Binding keypad enter to an action (in the toolkit)
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Date: 1 Mar 89 20:08:03 GMT
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In article <3447@stiatl.UUCP> meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal) writes:
>In article <8321@watcgl.waterloo.edu> jmberkley@watnext.waterloo.edu (J. Michael Berkley) writes:
>>Using C and the toolkit, how can you add the keypad enter key to the
>>translation table.  I can do it as a resource using xrdb, but I can't
>>find a way to do it from a C program.
>
>You didn't mention your hardware, but I know our Roadrunners are set
>up like this. We set things up via xmodmap because we are using a version
>of the server someone else has tweaked, but know what we need to change
>when we start supporting our server. Look in the server/ddx/<your hardware>
>directory at the <your hardware>KeyMap.c file.

No, that's not it.  In lib/Xaw/TextTr.c there are entries for Key
translations:

	char defaultTextTranslations[] =
	"\
	.
	.
	<Key>Right:	forward-character() \n\
	.
	.
	";

In my code, I tried:

    XtOverrideTranslations(w,
	XtParseTranslationTable("<Key>KB_Enter: print-selection()"));

The "KB_Enter" comes from lib/X/ks_names.h.  This piece of C code does
not work.  This does work with other keys, eg. "meta<Key>S".

In my .Xresources file, I can say:

    stuff*Text.Translations: #override \
	<KeyPress>KP_Enter: print-selection()

This does do the correct translation binding, but of course I don't
want all of my users to have to add this to their .Xresources file.


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