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From: dvb@emisle.uucp (David Van Beveren)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: auto-traverse of text widgets
Message-ID: <1991Apr20.055856.7113@emisle.uucp>
Date: 20 Apr 91 05:58:56 GMT
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In article <2801F4F9.5C0D@deneva.sdd.trw.com> rroux@rigel.sdd.trw.com () writes:
>
>I'm stumped.  I have a bulletinboard widget that contains two single line
>text widgets and a couple labels.  I want to be able to press <Return> 
>in one of the text widgets and have the focus automatically shift to the
>other text widget.
>
>I tried using XtSetKeyboardFocus with limited success.  The focus _does_
>change, but the text cursor in the first widget keeps blinking.  It seems
>that there is confusion between the program and the window manager as to
>which widget really has the focus.

Motif and XtSetKeyboardFocus indeed do not cooperate. OSF tells you not to
use them together, and in X11R4 provides a set of routines to do what you 
need (XmProcessTraversal, XmAdd(Remove)TabGroup). This is one of the major
improvements of Motif 1.1 over Motif 1.0.

>
>Is there a better/another way?  By the way, I'm using Motif 1.0.3 and the
>X11R3 libraries, but running X11R4.
>

I assume this means you are running on an X11R4 server? My advice is to pursue
X11R4 and Motif 1.1 aggressively. It is really quite an improvement. Both in
features and bug fixes.

>Thanks,
>  Ray Roux
>    rroux@rigel.sdd.trw.com


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