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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Moving child widgets around
Message-ID: <8903071904.AA04669@LYRE.MIT.EDU>
Date: 7 Mar 89 19:04:28 GMT
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>    <Btn3Down>,<Btn3Motion>,<Btn3Up>:farble()\n\
>
> This all works fine if I keep the
> pointer within the child widget, but if I move it out into the parent widget
> (the box), then the translation table mechanism doesn't know about the Btn3Up
> event, and doesn't call "farble".

Try adding <Btn3Down>,<Btn3Motion>,<Leave>,<Btn3Up>:farble() to your
translation table as well.  This worked in my quick test using
the Xaw Command widget.  I can't vouch for the correctness of the
rest of what you described, but this particular problem has an
easy fix.