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From: Matthew.Diamond@MAPS.CS.CMU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Popup dialog keyboard focus
Message-ID: <9006052336.AA25874@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 5 Jun 90 23:31:39 GMT
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SUMMARY: A problem setting the keyboard focus to a dialog box's value widget.

I have a popup shell with a dialog box as the child.  When I pop it up I set
the keyboard focus of the top level to the value widget of the dialog.  When
the user types it goes into the value widget, no problem.

Then I set the keyboard focus of the top-level to "None" and popdown the
shell.  BUT: keystrokes still go into the value widget!  I have to set
the keyboard focus explicitly to something else to solve the problem,
I can't just set it to "None".

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?  If initially I set the focus to
the dialog widget, not to its value widget, setting the focus to "None" works.

Vitals: X11R4, microVax II, 4-bit display.
        note: This code worked under r3, we started having problems when we
              switched to r4.  Shame, 'cause r4 is better.  Help!

Matt
matt@maps.cs.cmu.edu