[squeak-dev] 5.3 wrong keyboard focus upon image launch

Eliot Miranda eliot.miranda at gmail.com
Fri Jan 17 19:47:14 UTC 2020



> On Jan 17, 2020, at 10:41 AM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 1:24 pm, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Marcel, hi all,
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>> An obscure, but painful usability regression has crept into 5.3.  Upon launching the image, the image window will appear.  I need it to honor the Global Command Keys until hand movements otherwise shift focus to some widget under the hand.
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>> In 5.2, moving the hand from the OS desktop into the Squeak (non-full screen) image desktop, the command keys are honored.  In 5.3, you have to force some keyboard focus shift into some widget first, THEN back to the desktop, before the Global Command keys will be honored.
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>> This makes debugging Magma a lot more cumbersome, because the test suite launches five copies of the image.  If there is a failure, I'm left with needing to close all five manually.  The hot-key makes this a breeze... but not if it doesn't work, of course.
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>> Morphic-cmm.1618 addresses this issue, and would like to include it (or alternative fix) in 5.3.
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> +1 for merging the fix

No objection.  Would like Marcel and/or Nicolas to review.

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>> Thanks,
>>   Chris
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