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Re: Help with Input Group

#482
From: Mark Linton
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 18:29
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In article <9208120018.AA10556@sc.zuken.com>, daw@sc.zuken.com (Don Walters) writes:
|> I have a window with a bunch of buttons and field-editor
|> fields.  The normal input behaviour in this case is that
|> selecting one of the fields causes it to receive focus, and
|> all keyboard events will be directed to the input field
|> regardless of what object the mouse cursor is over.
|> 
|> I have successfully created an InputHandler object which
|> contains a list of my buttons and editors.  Selecting a
|> button or edit-field does switch focus properly, but keystroke
|> events are only directed to the edit-field when the mouse
|> cursor is over an edit-field.
|> 
|> How can I cause all keystroke events in the window to be
|> directed to the object that has focus?

This sounds like the bug where if the mouse is over
a button the keystroke does not go to the current focus.
This has been fixed since 3.1-beta.  If the mouse is over
white space (not a button) but not a field editor,
do keystrokes go to the focus?
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