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From: eric@cbmvax.commodore.com (Eric Cotton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Activating Gadgets in C
Message-ID: <13576@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 12:59:03 GMT
References: <2384@ryn.esg.dec.com>
Reply-To: eric@cbmvax (Eric Cotton)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <2384@ryn.esg.dec.com> barrett@meridn.enet.dec.com (Keith Barrett) writes:
>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.

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your predicament, but the simplest method is
the Intuition function ActivateGadget:

	Success = ActivateGadget(Gadget, Window, Request)
	D0                       A0      A1      A2

	BOOL Success;
	struct Gadget *Gadget;
	struct Window *Window;
	struct Requester *Request;

After you have processed one gadget simply ActivateGadget the next one.

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