mark@sunquest.UUCP (Mark Langley) (09/16/88)
In my copy of the X Toolkit manual (X11R2), pgs 99-100 are devoted
to the explanation of accelerators. Accelerators are described
as translations which can be applied to other widgets.
When I went to try them out, I found that none of the requisite
definitions were in the toolkit header files. On further inspection,
I found nothing close in the Xt lib source area, and after nm-ing the libX*
files found nothing resembling any of the entry points documented
in the manual.
Is this material on accelerators 1) preview of coming attraction
2) stuff that never got implemented because it wasn't wholly necessary
(like AppContext) or 3) a cruel hoax.
I like the idea of accelerators, as described, since it would be nice
to apply translations to other widgets without augmenting the translations
individually. But I could also see how the implementors might find
fatter fish to fry than this.
Thanks in advance
Mark Langley
mark@sunquest.com
The best thing for man is not to be born at all,
and the best thing after that is to die as quickly as possible.
-- Demigod Silenus to Croesusswick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (09/16/88)
Date: 16 Sep 88 06:14:05 GMT
From: sunquest!mark@arizona.edu (Mark Langley)
In my copy of the X Toolkit manual (X11R2), pgs 99-100 are devoted
to the explanation of accelerators.
Nope, you don't have an R2 manual. You have something else entirely.
When I went to try them out, I found that none of the requisite
definitions were in the toolkit header files.
Correct, for R2.
Is this material on accelerators 1) preview of coming attraction
2) stuff that never got implemented because it wasn't wholly necessary
(like AppContext) or 3) a cruel hoax.
Coming in R3.