What's in a name?

[Rob Arthan]

Can anyone explain why creating a pulldown menu named "Command" gives rise
to the following Xt warning?

Warning: Actions not found: reset, set, notify, unset

The attached code shows this in action (and gives the warning message on
XFree86 and on the Motif bundled with Solaris 2.8).

Regards,

Rob.

[Rob Arthan]

Rob Arthan wrote:

Answer: resources, you fool! You were trying this with displays running
various versions of KDE. KDE in its infinite wisdom apparently uses xrdb to
load resources from a wide variety of places. These include a file called
AAAXaw.ad, which is presumably intended for generic Athena widget
applications and contains the following:

*Command.translations: <LeaveWindow>: reset()\n <Btn1Down>:
set()\n<Btn1Up>: notify() unset()

which is apparently lifted from the Xedit-color applications defaults file
that comes with X.

So not a Motif issue at all - although it would be a real pain in general to
defend your code against an environment which loads large numbers of
resources with no application class specified (KDE on my Mandrake 9.1
set-up loads over 200).

Regards,

Rob.