f28982j@kaira.hut.fi (Karl R J Holmstrom) (11/08/90)
This has probably been asked before, but could somebody please help me. I have difficulties in getting a TextWidget to give up focus. I have one single line TextWidget in a FormWidget along with a few PushButtonWidgets and a DrawingArea. I would like the TextWidget to behave like this: When I click on the TextWidget, it should get keyboard focus. When I press return or click on the surrounding form, the TextWidget should lose focus so that I can update the application with the new string. The TextWidget gets the focus but I can't figure out how to loose focus. I've tried to add a translation to the surrounding FormWidget that calls _XmGrabTheFocus or XSetInputFocus after a button press. However, nothing seems to affect the TextWidget focus. When it has once obtained focus there seems to be no way to give up focus! I'm using Motif 1.0.X on HP-UX 7.0. Karl
nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) (11/09/90)
nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley) writes: > Focusin/out is a real tempting way to update from a text widget, > but it's wrong. .... That is untrue, I am afraid. The word should be 'unsupported'. I have an application where it is the RIGHT thing to do, even though I cannot do it reliably in Motif (for the reasons that Kee states). In fact, I believe (from experience with the HP widgets) that the fundamental restrictions are partially in the X Toolkit itself. I quite agree that it is incompatible with a pointer focus environment, but that is another point. In the application mentioned above, I would like to use selection focus policy within my own windows, but leave external focus policy to the window manager. Ho, hum! Nick Maclaren University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk