barrett@meridn.enet.dec.com (Keith Barrett) (08/02/90)
I need help with gadgets in C. I created a database that uses string gadgets as input. The problem is I can't get the gadgets to auto-activate so that you don't have to click the mouse on the string gadget to activate it. So you should just be able to type and when you hit return it should activate the next gadget. I set the SELECTED bit in the gadget but all this does is make the cursor appear but you still have to click on the gadget. The only method I can think of would be feeding INTUITION false mouse movement, but that seems a little messy. Any help would be appreciated. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I'm Bart Simpson - who the hell are you?" Keith G. Barrett - Software Specialist Internet: barrett@meridn.enet.dec.com Digital Equipment Corp. "DEC has it now" UUCP: decwrl!meridn.enet!barrett // "Wait'll they get a load of me" - Joker \X/ "The Amiga is really a picoVAX" "You won't get it!" - the Prisoner ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ric@hpspdra.HP.COM (Ric Peregrino) (08/04/90)
About the string gadgets. If you look in the RKM gadgets chapter, you'll find ActivateGadget() which you can use to activate the string gadget only if the window it is in is already active. You could set ACTIVEWINDOW | INACTIVEWINDOW IDCMP flags to find out about the state of your window. In using string gadgets I found that after hitting return the text entered remains. Clearing the string buffer and RefreshGadget will clear it but it will also make the undo buffer unuseable, it seems. Also, with a COMMSEQ Q menu pick for quitting your program, with the string gadget active causes a funny thing on my A2000 1.3 when a program was invoked from a shell; the invoking shell is inacticve and can't be activated until the mouse is clicked outside of the shell. No big problem just interesting. I tried to RemoveGadget to de-activate the string gadget to no avail. How do you de-activate the string gadget? ric@hpspd
peter@cbmvax.commodore.com (Peter Cherna) (08/06/90)
In article <13580003@hpspdra.HP.COM> ric@hpspdra.HP.COM (Ric Peregrino) writes: > > In using string gadgets I found that after hitting return the text >entered remains. Clearing the string buffer and RefreshGadget will clear >it but it will also make the undo buffer unuseable, it seems. That is the normal correct behavior for a string gadget, so the user can go back and make further changes. The user shouldn't have to be forced down a linear path through your user-interface. Let him go back. The undo buffer holds the contents of the string gadget when the user began to edit it. > Also, with a COMMSEQ Q menu pick for quitting your program, with the >string gadget active causes a funny thing on my A2000 1.3 when a >program was invoked from a shell; the invoking shell is inacticve and >can't be activated until the mouse is clicked outside of the shell. >No big problem just interesting. I tried to RemoveGadget to de-activate >the string gadget to no avail. How do you de-activate the string gadget? You cannot deactivate a gadget programmatically. Make sure you aren't calling ActivateGadget() after you've already closed your window. That would put Intuition into a limbo-state. >ric@hpspd Peter -- Peter Cherna, Software Engineer, Commodore-Amiga, Inc. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!peter peter@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com My opinions do not necessarily represent the opinions of my employer. "This is a one line proof...if we start sufficiently far to the left."