I've been using a simple hack to hook into the findWindow functionality 
from the World menu which I'm attaching below. Basically, the attached 
changeset modifies SystemWindow to watch for Ctrl-Tab key events and to 
popup the findWindow menu from the World menu. This changes the keyboard 
focus correctly if the newly activated window (from the menu) happens to 
be under the mouse pointer. Otherwise, the newly activated window is 
brought to the front but doesn't acquire keyboard focus.

Perhaps, one of the Morphic wizards can provide insight on the right way 
to switch keyboard focus programmatically.

Peace.

-ram

Frank Shearar wrote:
>>Karl Ramberg wrote:
>>Thank you for your effort.
>>A feature I would like for the reviewer note pad is tab switching.
>>Just pressing tab to jump from item to item of the pad would rock.
> 
> 
> I'd love to see tab switching _everywhere_ in Squeak. And an equivalent to alt-tabbing in a Windows environment - switching between SystemWindows. Having to grab a mouse to do anything (click a button, change focus to another window, etc) annoys me a lot. Of course, if it annoys me so much I should learn Morphic and implement it. Hm, I think I'll sacrifice a chicken and pray that someone else does it :)
> 
> frank
> 
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