Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #43112] XBoard*form.translations doesn't work anymore

[H.G. Muller]

Well, I admit that I can also not get it to work.
The problem is that I don't know enough about the X-server
to know how it is supposed to work. I tried it with an older
XBoard version (4.4.3) which still had the old key-binding
mechanism. This had a default key binding (hard-coded
in XBoard itself) of 'v' for FlipViewProc(). And that works.
But if I try to bind 'x' (which did not have a binding)
to FlipViewProc as well through the .Xdefaults method
described in the manual, nothing happens when I press 'x'.

So the problem does not seem to be that something was
changed in XBoard (which should be solvable by using the
MenuItem() wrapper to indicate the menu functions, rather
than the old 'Proc' naming), but that the ~/.Xdefaults (or
~/.Xresources) way of defining a key binding does not work
at all. I am pretty sure that when you could devise a way to
define your own key binding in that older version (rather
than using the hard-coded default bindings), that same
method would work in the 4.7.3 as well (using the new
MenuItem(...) indication of the menuProcs).

Of course 4.7.3 has its own hard-coded key bindings as well,
and these do work. The question why you would want to
change them is still not answered.

H.G.
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