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From: rich@MAX7.llnl.gov (Rich Mayfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Setting keyboard focus
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Date: 7 Mar 91 17:45:45 GMT
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Here's the poop -

I've got a few XmText widgets sitting in an XmForm.  My basic goal
is to re-write the tab grouping mechanism so that I can do my
own validation before moving onto another XmText widget. (i.e. when
I press Tab, I want to check the contents of the XmText, if it's
ok then I'll move on; otherwise I stay where I am and do some sort
of error handling).

Currently, I'm using XtSetKeyboardFocus(), but I wind up with TWO text fields
with cursors.  I guess one of my problems is that I can't force one
of the widgets to "give up" input focus.

Any hints out there?  Thanks much!
rich mayfield