Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

2185.0. "How the input focus works..." by EVOIS6::DAN_M (Maya DAN) Fri Feb 02 1990 05:49

	One of my customer would like to have more explanations on input focus:  
        

    'I do not fully understand how the input focus work (at least for dialog
    boxes) :
    
    I have a popup modeless dialog box (ie with all the DW Window Manager
    decorations) in which I have several keyboard accelerators. If I click
    anywhere in this window execpt in the title bar, the input focus seems
    given to it (the title bar has the active color), but if I use the
    keyboard accelerators for by buttons, I got beeps. If I click on the
    title bar to set the input focus on the dialog window, everything works
    fine until I move the mouse away from this window, that is to have the
    accelators work, I must click in the title bar and have the pointer in
    the window (note that if it is outside, the system does not beep, but
    keypresses are ignored). This happens with UWS 2.1 on a RISC machine.
    
    In fact, I really want to have a modal dialog box which is supposed to
    grab the focus when it is given to a client (this looks like the case,
    because no other windows have an active title bar). But I am in the first
    case above (ie clicking anywhere in the window) because using the
    keyboard generates beeps. The problem is that I can not explicitly give
    the focus to my dialog box, because there is no title bar.'

	Could someone help me to answer to my customer please?
	thank you very much 
	regards
	M

	Don't forget to install the acceleratos on all text widgets *and*
	the dialog box widget.

	Mike