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From: mayer@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Niels Mayer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: HP text widget
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Date: 7 Mar 89 05:55:55 GMT
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In article <6858@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> ssroy@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Steve Scot Roy) writes:
>When I try to use the HP text widget I get a problem that I do not
>understand.
>
>I can put it on the screen and use it with no problems save two.
>
>The first, and more annoying, is that the keys 'i' and 'd' seem to be
>mapped to carriage return and delete respectively.
>
>Second, the caret leaves residues on the left hand edge.

I've noticed the same problems in my applications. I've noticed that the
problem goes away if I relink my program with an X11r2 libX11.a. You can
also get rid of the problem by changing the defaultTextEditTranslations
table in Xw/TextEdit.c or override them via .Xdefaults.

I guess that suggests that things have changed in the translation names
between r2 and r3. I have a partial clue:

		from TextEdit.c			status
		---------------			-----------
		<Key>InsertLine			can't find it in r3
		<Key>DeleteChar 		changed to <Key>Delete (?)

What's going on here? I'm so confused! Where's all this documented? Help!
I haven't had the time or desire to look into this in more detail...

-- Niels.

PS: While we're at it, there's also a missing element in the TextEdit class
record declaration:

*** TextEdit.c  Fri Mar  3 14:14:11 1989
--- TextEdit.c.patched  Tue Feb 28 21:15:51 1989
***************
*** 2448,2456
      /* version          */      XtVersion,
      /* callback_private */      NULL,
      /* tm_table         */      defaultTextEditTranslations,
!     /* query_geometry */      NULL,
!     /* display_accel  */      XtInheritDisplayAccelerator,
!     /* extension        */      NULL
    },
    {
      /* XwPrimitive fields */

--- 2448,2455 -----
      /* version          */      XtVersion,
      /* callback_private */      NULL,
      /* tm_table         */      defaultTextEditTranslations,
!     /* display_accelerator    */      XtInheritDisplayAccelerator,
!     /* extension              */      NULL
    },
    {
      /* XwPrimitive fields */