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From: nazgul@alphalpha.com (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: focus on motif text widgets
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.164453.9486@alphalpha.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 16:44:53 GMT
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In article <9104162304.AA07526@excess.lcs.mit.edu> converse@expo.lcs.mit.EDU (Donna Converse) writes:
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>> Can anyone out there tell me how I can set the input focus to
>> a particular instance of a motif text widget?  
>
>See the Xt specification, section 7.3, "Focusing Events on a Child"

Unfortunately that won't work.  Motif has a complicated internal concept
of Focus that it uses to implement keyboard traversal.  If you use the
Xt calls you'll bypass this mechanism and it won't realize what's happened.
The situation will degrade from there on.
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