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From: ejp@bohra.cpg.oz (Esmond Pitt)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Setting location of input cursor
Message-ID: <432@bohra.cpg.oz>
Date: 1 Aug 90 04:43:17 GMT
References: <9007301755.AA29376@hare.udev.cdc.com>
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Organization: Computer Power Group, Melb, Australia
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In article <9007301755.AA29376@hare.udev.cdc.com> slc1290@HARE.UDEV.CDC.COM (steve chesney x4662) writes:

>    How can I control which XmText receives the keyboard focus (i.e., 
>    contains the tab cursor and will receive keyboard events).  It seems
>    that the focus initially belongs to the first XmText added to the 
>    list of tab groups.
>
> I have tried XtSetKeyboard focus; while it highlights the intended XmText,
> the first text widget in the list also has a highlight, and it gets all
> keyboard events.  I even see two blinking I-beam cursors!

This is a known problem. Solution:

Motif 1.0*: use _XmGrabTheFocus(widget): undocumented but effective.

Motif 1.1: use XmProcessTraversal(...) (details unknown to me).


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Esmond Pitt, Computer Power Group
ejp@bohra.cpg.oz
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