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From: lyn@campbel.campbel.diskless (     Lyn Stewart      )
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Text Field Widget
Message-ID: <110002@campbel.campbel.diskless>
Date: 27 Dec 89 18:56:08 GMT
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Organization: Boeing Commercial Airplanes Structural Dynamics Lab.
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/ campbel:comp.windows.x / montjoy@ucece1.ece.uc.edu (Robert C. Montjoy) /  5:34 pm  Dec 18, 1989 /

>Hi.


>I have been programing in AT&T's OPENLOOK package for almost a year. I
>have most of my original graphics completily ported to this toolkit.
>However there is small enhancment that I want to do to the  TEXT field
>widget. What the TEXT field widget does is provide a field for users to
>type text into. However, thier is no clean way of checking the string to
>the user hits return or the widget losses or gains input focus. What I
>need to do is to add a procedure to the widget to just that. I am not
>a widget programmer so if some kind soul can supply me with a general
>idea how to do this. 
>
>
>Thanks for any info,
>
>Rob Montjoy
>
>E-MAIL	Rob.Montjoy@uc.edu
>	uunet!uucba!ucece1!montjoy
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I have done something simular with hp's textedit widget.  I use the
events which combine together to allow checking before the return is
pressed.  Crazy method but I would rather not modify a standard widget
unless pressed ( hard ).

Lyn Stewart
Boeing Commercial Airplanes