rjh@.udev.cdc.com (rick huebsch x-3544) (03/13/90)
I am fairly new to X programming and am writing a client that among other
things pops up dialogs prompting for user information. I have a couple
"basic" questions regarding the Athena Widgets and Xt programming:
1. In the popup dialogs, there are several asciiString Widgets being
used as text entry fields. I would like to be able to assign
keyboard focus to the whole popup dialog and then TAB between
text entry fields rather than requiring the pointer to be
positioned in the text entry field. Is this something where
"translations" should be used? (accelerators?)
2. I have a box Widget full of buttons (15). It would be nice to
place a short message on an information line that would describe
the action that would take place when the currently hilited button
is activated. Since the command button widget only defines a
callback list for activated buttons, what is the preferred method
for defining what happens on Enter/LeaveNotify events?
Write a new widget with callback lists defined? Use
something besides callbacks?
Please respond via e-mail as well as posting since I find it hard to keep
up with this newsgroup.
Thanks in advance,
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Rick Huebsch E-mail: rjh@udev.cdc.com
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