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From: kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
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Subject: Re: Translation management problems
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Date: 28 Mar 89 20:31:43 GMT
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> Unfortunately, when I do so some widgets loose (sic).  For example:

xman -xrm '*Translations:#override<Key>Alt_R:		Help()'

I am surprised that this works at all, the specification states that 
there must be a "\n" after the directive (#override in this case).

That might help things work better.

Also, where is this action defined?  The toolkit will look in each 
widget's action list from subclass to superclass order, then look in
the application's action list.  If it cannot then find the action it
will print a warning message.

One side effect that may cause you problems is that you have just told
all of your widgets to look for key press events, this means that it is 
no longer possible for child windows to pass events up to their parents.
Some applications may depend upon this behavior.  Just a word to the
wise.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium /
						Project Athena 

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