[11947] in Athena Bugs
Bug in XmTextField widget: some actions not recognized
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (rnewman@MIT.EDU)
Tue Apr 12 00:08:16 1994
From: rnewman@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 1994 00:07:48 -0400
To: motif-defect@osf.org
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, yandros@MIT.EDU, svalente@MIT.EDU, rei@MIT.EDU
Cc: nazgul@alfalfa.com, rnewman@MIT.EDU, motif@ora.com, motif@MIT.EDU
Submitter Information (Include Email address at miminum)
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Submitter Name: Ron Newman
Organization: MIT Project Athena
Email Address: <rnewman@mit.edu>
Phone: 252-1705
Hardware/Software Configuration
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Offering and Version: Motif 1.1.5, 1.2.3
Component (Module): Toolkit (TextF.c)
OSF License Number: 23
Client Hardware: doesn't matter
Client Software: doesn't matter
Server Hardware: doesn't matter
Server Software: doesn't matter
Compiler: doesn't matter
Problem Description
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Severity Level:
Severe -- represents a problem which resulted in software functionality
limitation but had alternative work-around.
Date of First Occurrence:
April 8, 1994
One Line Description:
Many XmText action routines don't work for XmTextField
Full Description:
The XmTextField widget's action routines are documented to be "the
same as those of XmText when XmNeditMode is set to XmSINGLE_LINE_EDIT",
but this does not seem to be the case. It is understandable that the
line, page, and paragraph-related actions are not there, but what about these?
beep
insert-string
kill-next-character
kill-next-word
kill-previous-character
kill-previous-word
kill-selection
kill-to-end-of-line
kill-to-start-of-line
process-down
process-home
process-return
process-tab
process-up
redraw-display
secondary-notify
select-adjust
select-end
select-start
set-insertion-point
set-selection-hint
stuff
unkill
I am trying to provide Emacs-equivalent key bindings for both Text
and TextField widgets in my application, and the lack of the "kill-"
actions in TextField makes it impossible to provide a uniform user interface.
(I have to use "delete-" instead for TextField.)
I've only tried this for 1.1.5, but my perusal of the 1.2.3 sources
doesn't suggest this has been fixed.
Repeat By:
Try putting any of the above in a translation table for
an XmTextField widget.
Proposed Solution:
Implement them or change the documentation to indicate that
they are NOT implemented for XmTextField.
