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Article #767Re: event handler around a button IV3.1
From: Mark Linton
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:17
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:17
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In article <ld6a9iINNae8@news.bbn.com>, jpalmucc@bbn.com (Jeff Palmucci) writes: |> bennett@mozart.redwood.com (Michael Bennett) writes: |> > The Button, as an ActiveHandler, |> >grabs events while the cursor is within the Button. It grabbed my |> >keystroke events and ignored them. Shouldn't the Button somehow send |> >along keystrokes since it doesn't care about them? |> |> I ran into the same problem with a Drag around an ActiveHandler. As |> soon as the mouse enters the ActiveHandler extension, the |> ActiveHandler grabs all the events, including the middle button press |> that was meant to start the drag. |> |> >And, possibly |> >related, why does Handle::event() now return a boolean? What does it |> >mean? Is this what the button event grabber should use to indicate |> >that it didn't handle the keystroke event so it can be dispatched to |> >someone who wants it? |> |> It looks like the boolean is ignored. I'd like to know what future |> versions will do with it. |> |> >Anyone know what I should be doing to accomplish this? |> |> Yeah, anyone? I fixed a problem in beta3 that should fix the case where buttons eat keyboard events. If the problem is still occuring, please send me an example program.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!ames!olivea!sgigate!odin!fido!marktwain.rad.sgi.com!linton From: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews Subject: Re: event handler around a button IV3.1 Message-ID: <1bmtftINN61i@fido.asd.sgi.com> Date: 16 Oct 92 17:17:49 GMT References: <1992Oct2.011228.19895@redwood.com> <ld6a9iINNae8@news.bbn.com> Reply-To: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton) Organization: sgi Lines: 28 NNTP-Posting-Host: marktwain.rad.sgi.com