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From: garyo@prometheus.think.com (Gary Oberbrunner)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Why don't my widgets work as expected?
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Date: 9 Aug 89 03:00:18 GMT
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> In a recent posting I mentioned a problem I seem to be having with
> keyboard translations when exeuting Doug Young's simple "one-line
> edit-field" example program.  For some reason, some of the letters I
> typed weren't displayed in the text-field (when I pressed the letter 'b',
> for instance, it caused the field-widget's caret to backspace.)  In addition,
> I would get a warning message from the toolkit telling me that previous
> translation manager actions were overridden - when the widget was realized
> for the first time.

This is caused by the presence of keysyms that don't exist on your system
in the default translations.  Replace the translations entirely.  Look in
the HP Widgets source and you'll see lots of funny keysyms, and sure enough
the letters they begin with are the letters that you can't type.

--
					As always,

					Gary O

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