[comp.windows.x] Motif Keyboard Accelerator problems under MIT X & Sun OpenWindows

chuck@Morgan.COM (Chuck Ocheret) (04/24/91)

Posting this for someone in another division where they keep screwing
up their mail and news setup.  I don't think he can read news rightnow
so respond directly to him an leave me out of it.

From jerryl@is2.is.morgan.com Wed Apr 24 12:13:48 1991
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From: jerryl@is2.is.morgan.com (Jerry Liebelson)
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To: chuck@s5
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 91 15:48:45 EDT
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Hi Chuck,
	Thanks again for helping me out. Could you post the following article
to the the following newsgroups:
	comp.windows.x.motif
	comp.windows.open-look
with Subject: Motif Keyboard Accelerator problems under MIT X & Sun OpenWindows

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SITUATION:
  I have a simple motif program (listed below) that consists of
BulletinBoard widget containing a single PushButton widget. The program
also registeres a bunch of keyboard accelerators that each trigger the
button's activation callback routine.

ENVIRONMENT:
  SunOS 4.11, X11R4 patchlevel 18, Motif 1.1, Sun OpenWindows 2.0, 
  Sun SparcStation 2,SLC,IPC

PROBLEM 1:
  When this program runs under MIT X11R4 with mwm, SOME of the
accelerator keys DON'T activate: F4, F10, and the arrow keys. I suspect
there is interference with the builtin tab-group (arrow keys) and
menu-bar (F10) translations.  But calling XmRemoveTabGroup doesn't seem
to make any difference. DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHY THESE KEYS DON'T WORK
AS THE OTHERS DO AND IS THERE A WAY TO GET THESE KEYS TO WORK?

PROBLEM 2:
  When this program runs under Sun's X11/NEWS (OpenWindows) with either
mwm or olwm, NONE of the NUMPAD keys (PgDn, PgUp, Home, End, arrow keys)
and F4 and F10 work. The additional key failures don't seem to be caused
by the X11/NEWS server alone; all the keys will function correctly if
one uses Athena widgets instead of Motif widgets.  DOES ANYBODY
KNOW HOW I CAN GET ALL THESE KEYS TO WORK IN A MOTIF APPLICATION RUNNING
UNDER THE SUN X11/NEWS SERVER?

COMMENTS:
  I suspect that there is probably a single solution or explanation for
the 2 problems.
  The outputs of xev and xmodmap in both MIT and OpenWindows environments
don't seem to show anything significant. Also, under OpenWindows, the 
Osf XKeySymDB file was made available.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <Intrinsic.h>
#include <StringDefs.h>
#include <keysym.h>
#include <Xm/BulletinB.h>
#include <Xm/PushB.h>

void  ButtonCallback();
void Quit();

Widget AppShell;
static String Accelerators=
{
	"#override <KeyPress>F3:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
             <KeyPress>R15:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
             <KeyPress>R9:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
             <KeyPress>R7:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
               <KeyPress>R13:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
               <KeyPress>Left:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
               <KeyPress>Down:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
               <KeyPress>Right:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
               <KeyPress>Up:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
           Shift<KeyPress>F10:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
               <KeyPress>F10:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
           Shift<KeyPress>F4:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
               <KeyPress>F4:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
           		<KeyPress>Tab:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
           Shift<KeyPress>F11:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
               <KeyPress>F11:  ArmAndActivate() \n\
               <KeyPress>F12:  ArmAndActivate()"
};

	
/***************************************************************************/
int main(argc, argv)
int argc;
char **argv;
{

	Widget board, button;
	Arg argList[10];
	int i;
	XtAppContext appContext;
	Display *displayPtr;
	char appClass[64];
	

	strcpy(appClass,argv[0]);

    if (islower(appClass[0]))
		appClass[0] = toupper(appClass[0]);
    else if (islower(appClass[1]))
        appClass[1] = toupper(appClass[1]);
    
	AppShell = XtAppInitialize ( 
		&appContext, appClass, NULL, 0,
		&argc, argv,
		NULL, NULL, 0		
    );

	board = XtCreateManagedWidget(argv[0], xmBulletinBoardWidgetClass, AppShell,
		NULL, 0);

	i=0;
    XtSetArg (argList[i], XmNaccelerators,
		XtParseAcceleratorTable(Accelerators)); i++;
	button = XtCreateManagedWidget(argv[0], xmPushButtonWidgetClass, board,
		argList, i);

	XtAddCallback(button, XmNactivateCallback, ButtonCallback, NULL);
	XtRealizeWidget(AppShell);
	XtInstallAllAccelerators(button, board);

    XtAppMainLoop(appContext);

    exit(-1);
}

void ButtonCallback(widget, clientData, callData)
	Widget widget;
	caddr_t clientData;
	XmAnyCallbackStruct *callData;
{
	char keyString[12];
	KeySym keySym;

	XLookupString(&callData->event->xkey, keyString, sizeof(keyString), &keySym, NULL);
  
	if (callData->event->xkey.state & ShiftMask)
			fprintf(stderr, "Shift ");

	if (keySym == XK_F1 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F1");
	else if (keySym == XK_F2 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F2");
	else if (keySym == XK_F3 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F3");
	else if (keySym == XK_F4 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F4");
	else if (keySym == XK_F5 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F5");
	else if (keySym == XK_F6 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F6");
	else if (keySym == XK_F7 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F7");
	else if (keySym == XK_F8 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F8");
	else if (keySym == XK_F9 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F9");
	else if (keySym == XK_F10 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F10");
	else if (keySym == XK_F11 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F11");
	else if (keySym == XK_F12 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F12");
	else if (keySym == XK_F12 )		
	   	fprintf(stderr, "F12");
	else if (keySym == XK_Right)	
	   	fprintf(stderr, "Right");
	else if (keySym == XK_Left)	
	   	fprintf(stderr, "Left");
	else if (keySym == XK_Up)	
	   	fprintf(stderr, "Up");
	else if (keySym == XK_Down)	
	   	fprintf(stderr, "Down");
	else if (keySym == XK_R7)	
	   	fprintf(stderr, "Home");
	else if (keySym == XK_R13)	
	   	fprintf(stderr, "End");
	else if (keySym == XK_R9)	
	   	fprintf(stderr, "PgUp");
	else if (keySym == XK_R15)	
	   	fprintf(stderr, "PgDn");
	else if (keySym == XK_Tab)	
	   	fprintf(stderr, "TAB");
				
	fprintf(stderr, " Pressed\n");
}

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