Hi Hernán,

 

I tried this already and was really confused by it.  I used a paste up and
two text fields.  I found the method valueAtCursor which returned the active
text field, and by following what the code was doing with tab I found this
method.  I expected that setting the keyboard focus through an inspector
that something would happen.  Nothing did, even valueAtCursor didn’t change.
I noticed that moving my mouse stole the cursor but I figured that since
valueAtCursor didn’t change that it didn’t work the way I expected it too
and there was more to the story then I understood.  There was a bunch of
other code besides this method, so I figured there had to be an easier way!


 

I would seem to me that having the mouse steal focus would be a disaster for
forms and business UI’s where using a mouse in most cases is not recommended
is there a way to turn that off or disable it while in a Morphic? (Until
another Morphic is selected)  

 

Is the answer for Marcus use MVC or wxSqueak?  

 

Thanks,

 

Ron Teitelbaum

 

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From: Hernan Tylim [mailto:htylim at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 4:21 PM
To: Ron at usmedrec.com; The general-purpose Squeak developers list
Subject: Re: Beginners Unanswered Questions

 

Hi, about this one:



On 5/9/06, Ron Teitelbaum <Ron at usmedrec.com> wrote:

 

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/beginners/2006-May/000052.html
how to set the focus on to a textMorph
 

ActiveHand newKeyboardFocus: aTextMorph.

ActiveHand is a global which points to the HandMorph instance of the active
world (you can also access this instance from inside any Morph with
Morph>>activeHand) 

BTW, when dealing with keyboard focus remember that Squeak has a "keyboard
focus follows mouse" policy. So even if you are setting it up
programatically any other morph might steal your keyboard focus. (try it
with a browser, start typing inside the text pane and move your mouse to any
of the upper lists). 

Regards,
Hernán

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