paul@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Paul Siu) (01/04/91)
I am trying to customize a widget using the translation table. A number of keys refused to be change though. Let's say I want the F2 key to set off the button "btn", I can add this to my application resource file. *btn.translations: #override\n\ <Key>F2: ArmAndActivate()\n\ This works fine for the key "F2". When I press F2, the button is armed, and activated. When I try to use "F1" or "Delete", or "BackSpace", it doesn't work. Why? I am running Motif 1.1, under X11R4. I thank you for any response. Paul Siu paul@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com
etaylor@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Eric Taylor) (01/04/91)
I apologize for my vague wording. I meant that when one of our X hackers seemed to find that when she compiled and built an Andrew Toolkit application that the application actually tried to initiate a connection for somehting other than X. This is equivalent to trying to rlogin into an X terminal which, of course, makes no sense since the X terminal does not accept connections for anything non-X related. I have been told that this does not happen. We will get somebody else to try it .... -- Eric Taylor Baylor College of Medicine etaylor@wilkins.bcm.tmc.edu (713) 798-3776
dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) (01/05/91)
In article <1113@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM>, paul@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Paul Siu) writes: |> I am trying to customize a widget using the translation table. A number of |> keys refused to be change though. Let's say I want the F2 key to set off |> the button "btn", I can add this to my application resource file. |> |> *btn.translations: #override\n\ |> <Key>F2: ArmAndActivate()\n\ |> |> This works fine for the key "F2". When I press F2, the button is armed, |> and activated. When I try to use "F1" or "Delete", or "BackSpace", it |> doesn't work. Why? I'm a little confused. Are you saying that if you change the above to *btn.translations: #override\n\ <Key>Delete: ArmAndActivate()\n\ it doesn't arm and activate the button, or are you saying that after adding the above translations that the exsiting translations for F1, Delete, and BackSpace no longer work? Also, is this a customization via your .Xdefaults, or via the application's app-defaults file? If .Xdefaults, does the application already have "*btn" translations? -- ...David Elliott ...dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce ...(408)944-4073 ..."That's *Mr.* Squishy-Lips to you!"
paul@tredysvr.Tredydev.Unisys.COM (Paul Siu) (01/07/91)
In article <1991Jan4.160401.21666@smsc.sony.com> dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) writes: >I'm a little confused. > >Are you saying that if you change the above to > >*btn.translations: #override\n\ > <Key>Delete: ArmAndActivate()\n\ > >it doesn't arm and activate the button, or are you saying that after >adding the above translations that the exsiting translations for F1, >Delete, and BackSpace no longer work? > >Also, is this a customization via your .Xdefaults, or via the >application's app-defaults file? If .Xdefaults, does the application >already have "*btn" translations? I am saying that when certain keys, notably F1, F4, F10, Escape, the arrow keys, the delete, and the backspace key does not response to entries in the translation no matter what you do. Other keys such as F2, F3, etc works fine as long as I enter the translation correctly. I put the translation in the resource file, namely the application resource file in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/. I also try putting the translation in the .Xdefaults, and in program code, and it still does not work. I am investigating keymapping, perhaps it is not mapped correctly. I am still open to suggestions. Thanks. Paul Siu paul@tredysvr.tredydev.unisys.com
gildea@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Stephen Gildea) (01/08/91)
Motif defines some "virtual keysyms," and you may have to use them.
Try using the keysym osfDelete ('though I agree Delete should work).
< Stephenben@hpcvlx.cv.hp.com (Benjamin Ellsworth) (01/08/91)
Motif pushbuttons do some ahh... interesting things with translations
in a dynamic fashion. These things are done to support and enforce the
style guide. F1, <esc>, and friends have specific meaning for
pushbuttons. Trying to change that meaning is not well supported by
the default (i.e. distributed) widget set.
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