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From: gustav@arp.anu.OZ.AU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: keyboard focus
Message-ID: <8911100524.8176@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 10 Nov 89 21:24:28 GMT
Organization: The Internet
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Dear Xpert,

I have a problem with the keyboard focus in my application. What happens is
as follows:
   On pressing a button in the main "control panel" of my application
   (this "control panel" is also the top level shell of the application
   created by XtInitialize) a new window appears which consists of two 
   dialog boxes, some lists, and a few command widgets - one of them 
   being "close window". There are no problems at this stage with trasferring 
   the keyboard focus between various dialog boxes of the application and 
   between its various top level windows. The focus is given to the window 
   automatically when the cursor enters the area of the window. However, 
   when I try to close the window by pressing the "close window" command 
   button, the window takes the keyboard focus with it, and it cannot be 
   transferred to the main command panel, unless the pop-up window is popped 
   up again.  The popup is popped up using XtPopup (popup_shell, XtGrabNone), 
   and then it is popped down using XtPopdown (popup_shell). The popup_shell 
   itself is a child of the top level shell. The application has been written 
   using Athena Widgets, X11/R3, vanilla distribution.  The widgets used in 
   the offending windows are dialog widget, command widget, list widget, and 
   label widget.  I've been experimenting with various kinds of "grabs" but 
   to no avail.

   Best regards,

   Gustav Meglicki,
   Automated Reasoning Project
   Research School of Social Sciences
   Australian National University,
   GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia

   gustav@arp.anu.oz.au