Re: [LessTif 94.0] Accelerator problems

There was a debate on the LessTif mailing list a while ago,
in which it was argued that NumLock and/or CapsLock shouldn't
disturb the accelerators. (Traditionally in X, they do, in
W*ndows platforms, they don't).

On september 28, 2004, I added a "fix" for that. It's in Manager.c,
the CVS diff can be viewed here :
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/lesstif/lesstif/lib/Xm-2.1/Manager.c?r1=1.3&r2=1.2

The first release in which this appeared is LessTif 0.94.0. This is
indicated in the release notes as "Controversial hack to accept
accelerators even if NumLock and/or CapsLock is on.".

Could this be the cause of your problem ?

If not, could someone send me the details on how to reproduce ? The
original post on the mailing list was too complicated for me. (I use
nedit but not these features.)

	Danny

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 16:01 +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> * Scott Tringali wrote (2005-02-07 15:49):
> >This may be a bug in our code - you have to mask off the modifiers you 
> >don't want.  (Ctrl+B actually means "any modifier, but you have to have 
> >ctrl" instead of "only ctrl").
> 
> I don't see this problem with Lesstif 1.2/0.93.94. I'm also making
> moderate use of modified hotkeys, so I think I would have noticed
> that problem (unless I did and suppressed it).
> 
> 
> Thorsten

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 15:07 +0100, Joerg Fischer wrote:
> there is a problem in lesstif 94.0. This version is currently
> "untested" wrt nedit, and probably shouldn't go into the "known good
> list" because of the following problem. 
> 
> To reproduce, open nedit with default settings (ie, w/o preference
> files). Create two entries for the macro menu named A and B,
> respectivley, with content dialog("A") and dialog("B"), and with
> accelerator key Shift+Ctrl+B (or also Alt+Ctrl+B) for A and Ctrl+B 
> for B.
> 
> Hitting Shift+Ctrl+B will invoke B, then.
> 
> (I checked with nedit 5.5 and current cvs snapshot. Previous
> versions of lesstif don't show this problem. I didn't check the
> latest lesstif cvs snapshot though.)
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Jörg

-- 
Danny Backx ; danny.backx - at - scarlet.be ; http://danny.backx.info

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