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From: bwong@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (bruce.f.wong)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re: HELP wanted on application dealing with input focus
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Date: 9 Jan 90 14:57:26 GMT
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In article <12663@cbnewsc.ATT.COM> bwong@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (bruce.f.wong) writes:
>...
>The generalization of this problem is:
>
>Given a bag with canvases that are interested in the focus,
>how can focus be transfered without moving the mouse ?

After firing off this article, I read about ``setinputfocus'' in Appendix B
of the NeWS Programmer's Guide and it does exactly what I want.  I was
wallowing in all the details on how bags manage focus that I overlooked this
simple mechanism and got very confused too.
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