Volume 6A: Motif Programming Manual

25.3.9 Translation Tables

The UIL translation_table type corresponds to the XtTranslations type. A translation table maps events

to action procedures. The format of a UIL translation table looks like an asciz_table in that it contains a list of

strings, but the individual entries in the table must contain valid translations. (See Volume Four, X Toolkit Intrinsics

Programming Manual, for a description of the Xt translation table syntax.) The following fragment shows the

definition of a translation_table value:

value

actions : translation_table ('#override',

'Ctrl<Key>A: beginning−of−line()',

'Ctrl<Key>E: end−of−line()',

'Ctrl<Key>space: set−anchor()');

The first entry of a translation_table can be used to control how the table affects the existing translations of a

widget. If the first entry is not a translation, the string must be one of #augment, #override, or #replace. Each

of the remaining entries in the table must be a NULL−terminated string containing a single translation. If you specify a

translation in a UIL module, a user cannot override it from a resource file. You should consider placing translations in

an app−defaults file so that users can customize them if they wish.

25.4 Working With Callbacks

Setting up a callback with UIL and Mrm involves four steps: writing the callback in application code, registering the

callback with Mrm, declaring the callback in the UIL module, and setting the callback in a UIL widget definition. A

callback that you write for use in an Mrm application ...