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Alex Humphreys wrote:
> 
> I just set up my screens to let the user tab through the various fields
> and buttons, and hit return on the button they want to click.
> 
> Only problem is: some inappropriate objects get the focus (meaning that
> you have to tab through images and uneditable textfields to get to
> buttons and choiceControls).
> 
> Is there a way to set the focusPath for a component or make an object so
> it can't gain focus (I know with buttons I can set focusAware to
> false--but what about the other objects?)?

For any UI object which needs to be painted in "enabled"
colors, you can do what the "International" demo does 
with image controls: place an enabled control (image, 
textfield, etc.) in a disabled panel.  

Simply disabling an image control produces horrifying 
results -- the image is painted in disabled colors.  I'm 
not sure who made that design decision, but there isn't
precedence for such a painting style -- images are
typically "disabled" wrt focus, but "enabled" wrt
to drawing.  Imagine Photoshop showing all other
layers but the selected one in disabled colors.
Now, there's cool idea, eh?  Or, imagine all images
in HTML -- essentially disabled -- being painted in
such "disabled" colors!  That would be quite novel
and so appealing.


Paul Furbacher