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- From: iwona@Software.Mitel.COM (Iwona Hawrylak)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.motif
- Subject: Accelerators, Key Bindings.
- Message-ID: <13775@iwona>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 18:11:53 GMT
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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- I'm working on 486 running Interactive UNIX, and Metrolink Motif.
- The keyboard is the standard PC keyboard. I've ran the "xev"
- program (described in "X Window System User's guide" Volume 3)
- and I found out the following:
-
- - the key labeled PgDn (and "3" above) has keycode 89 and
- keysym Next (0xff56)
- - the key labeled PageDown has keycode 134 and
- keysym Next (0xff56)
-
- I want to use those keys as menu button accelerators by specifying
- the following modifier-keysym sequence:
- Alt<Key>Next
-
- The problem is that this works for key labeled PgDn (keycode 89)
- which is mapped to keysym Next, but it does not work for the key
- labeled PageDown (keycode 134) which is also mapped to keysym Next.
-
- Does anybody have any idea why is it happening this way?
- What can I do to be able to use the Alt PageDown (keycode 134)
- as an accelerator?
-
- ****************************************************************
-
- I've searched all the literature I have to solve it. The only
- thing that I think might have any influence are the Motif Virtual
- binding (osf<keysym>). First of all I didn't find any osf...
- binding for Alt<Key>Next in XKeysymDB (which is by the way in hex
- code which is hard to understand) or in any of the widget's
- translations, and I don't have any .motifbind file in my home
- directory. But even if it would be somewhere, for example:
- osfsomekeysym : Alt <Key>Next
- then I shoudn't be able to redefine it for the PgDn (keycode 89)
- key either because it has the same keysym Next as key PageDown
- (keycode 134).
-
- More questions:
- 1. I cannot find the vendor-specific defaults for virtual bindings
- as mentioned in "Motif Programming Manual Vol 6" of O'Reilly &
- Associates, Inc. book page 786. Should I have one? Where would
- it be located.
-
- 2. In ...../motif/bindings directory there is a README file. There
- it says that I should copy one of the files containing bindings
- for specific keyboards to my home directory. But the only files
- that are there are sun_mit and sun_news files. There is no bindings
- file for PC keyboard. Do I need it? How do I get it?
-
- 3. In "Motif Programmer Reference" in Virtual Bindings man pages
- the format of the specification for mapping osf keysyms is
- described. It is also mentioned that as with event translations,
- more specific event descriptions must precede less specific
- descriptions. For example, an event description for a key with
- a modifier must precede a description for the same key without
- the same modifier. So for example:
-
- osfPageRight : Ctrl <Key>Next
- osfPageDown : <Key>Next
-
- With this definitions it works the following way:
- - if Ctrl<Key>Next is pressed the action defined for osfPageRight
- is executed.
- - if <Key>Next is pressed by itself or with any other modifier
- the action defined for osfPageDown is executed.
- How can I specify not to bind Alt<Key>Next to any osf keysym (for
- translations one could use "~" symbol in front of the modifier.
-
- 4. How to understand the format of ..../motif/lib/X11/XKeysymDB file
- and is it a some kind of default that the X server reads?
-
- 5. When I ran "xev" or "xmodmap -pk" programs I can see what are the
- current keycode-keysym bindings. Where are they read from?
-
- I would really appreciate some help.
- Thanks,
- Iwona
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