Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!cam-cl!news From: nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif Subject: Re: Strange TextWidget focus behaviour Message-ID: <1990Nov9.095206.2025@cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: 9 Nov 90 09:52:06 GMT References: <901107160221.11899@alphalpha> Reply-To: nmm@cl.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren) Distribution: inet Organization: U of Cambridge Comp Lab, UK Lines: 19 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