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From: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x,comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Bug in XView NUMERIC_TEXT Item
Message-ID: <5421@trantor.harris-atd.com>
Date: 5 Feb 91 13:09:34 GMT
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Reply-To: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Organization: Advanced Technology Dept, Harris Corp, Melbourne, FL
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     I have discovered that you cannot set the panel input focus (the caret)
to a specific numeric text item.  Calls of the form

	xv_set(panel, PANEL_CARET_ITEM, num_item, NULL);

remove the caret from the current item, but do not place it in the numeric
item.

     I have traced this to a bug in the XView toolkit.  Specifically, the
numeric text item is a regular text item with a wrapper to build and manage
the specific numeric text item features.  When you try to set the caret to
a numeric item, the toolkit fails to extract the enclosed text item and set
the caret on the real text item.

     Does anyone know of a workaround?  Insufficient types are exported to the
programmer to extract the actual textitem pointer from the numeric text item.

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