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

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

What's your point?

Toralf Lund wrote:

> 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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