tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards) (11/28/90)
In a previous note I describe the scenario whereby I have a bunch of link inset buttons; when I hit a button, a window appears with that file. The only problem is that there is no cursor in the new ez window. If I hit cursor keys, they are ignored. I presume my keystrokes are being directed to the link inset. However, in the new window I don't have a link inset button - just raw ascii text in a textview inset. All it takes is a mouse click in that window to activate the keystrokes. I'd like to make the suggestion that when the link inset launches its secondary window, it activates whatever inset is in that window (or at the top). Certainly I find it annoying in my context of editing, but I think it's a misfeature for help, too. Let's face it, most help files are longer than a window size. The most natural thing for me is to go for the cursor keys (page down particularly) to see more text. I can't do that if the window is launched by a link inset button; not unless I click in it first. - Anthony
tobeye@NORTHSTAR.DARTMOUTH.EDU (Anthony Edwards) (11/28/90)
Excerpts from mail: 28-Nov-90 Re: link inset usage disabl.. mcinerny+@andrew.cmu.edu (261) > I don't have this problem: the link inset warps the cursor to the new > window, and the input focus is set there. At least under TWM. What > window manager are you running? Perhaps you need to set point-focus > rather than click-focus. I, too, am using TWM. I too, have the mouse cursor warp to the new window. However, I do not get a text cursor in that window. That's an indication of the problem: EZ is sending all its character events to an inset (presumably the link inset) which ignores them; I want EZ to send its character events to the textview inset that has my file in it. That way, I can immediately start editing with the keyboard rather than clicking the mouse in the window (thereby telling EZ to send all character events to textview). (I guess I shouldn't have used the word cursor in the previous note without qualifying it as the text carat. I suppose I should have also pointed out that X mouse focus follows the mouse in my window manager - I do not click to tell X to focus in a window like Motif.) - Anthony