Re: Equivalent to Xt translation manager (XtAppAddActions() etc.)?

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Bob Caryl wrote:

> Yes, see:  
> http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/apb.html#id2510543

Doesn't that page just describe the basic event mechanism as well as 
high-level signals or callbacks? That's not quite the same thing as 
using Xt translations. The translation manager is essentially a layer 
above the event handling, but below widget callbacks/signals. It saves 
you from from writing code for each event when you want to do a certain 
action after a *sequence* of events. You can specify a handler or 
callback for,  say, a keypress followed by a mouse button-click followed 
by motion followed by mouse release followed by key release via a single 
"translation" event. It may be seen as a way to define your own 
highlevel callbacks/signals.

> Toralf Lund wrote:
>
> > Does Gtkmm/Gtk/GDK have an equivalent to XtAppAddActions()/the Xt 
> > translations manager?
> >
> > What the translation manager does is, and I quote,
> >
> >    The Xt translation manager calls an action routine when an event
> >    sequence matches an event specification in a widget translation
> >    table. In a translation table, actions are associated with event
> >    specifications. More than one event sequence can invoke the same
> >    action routine.
> >
> > [ from http://docs.hp.com/en/B1171-90145/ch03s04.html ]
> >
> > - Toralf
> >
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