Hi Eliot, hi all,
Keyboard focus in Morphic is beyond my skills, no time to dig. Sorry to not
be helpful this time.


Le sam. 18 janv. 2020 à 02:41, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> a
écrit :

> On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 11:47:14AM -0800, Eliot Miranda wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 17, 2020, at 10:41 AM, Fabio Niephaus <lists at fniephaus.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > ???
> > >
> > >
> > >> On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 1:24 pm, Chris Muller <asqueaker at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >> Hi Marcel, hi all,
> > >>
> > >> 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.
> > >>
> > >> 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.
> > >>
> > >> 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.
> > >>
> > >> Morphic-cmm.1618 addresses this issue, and would like to include it
> (or alternative fix) in 5.3.
> > >
> > > +1 for merging the fix
> >
> > No objection.  Would like Marcel and/or Nicolas to review.
> >
>
> +1 for merging Chris' change to trunk.
>
> While I have a hard time reproducing the useability scenario that
> Chris describes, I can demonstrate the underlying problem as follows:
>
> 1) Enable the "Mouse over for keyboard focus" preference.
>
> 2) In a workspace, with a transcript window open start the following
> process
> to log the keyboard focus to the transcript:
>
>   Transcript clear.
>   [[ (Delay forSeconds: 1) wait.
>     Transcript cr; show: ActiveHand keyboardFocus printString ] repeat ]
> fork.
>
> 3) In the same workspace, with that workspace highlighted for keyboard
> focus, do this:
>
>   Smalltalk snapshot: true andQuit: true.
>
> 4) Restart the image, keeping the mouse pointer away from the new Squeak
> window.
>
> 5) Watch the transcript. Move the mouse pointer into the Squeak display
> window, then back into into the workspace window.
>
> Prior to loading Morphic-cmm.1618, the keyboardFocus is the remembered
> value from the time of the image save, even though the mouse pointer
> is now elsewhere. The correct behavior should be that the mouse pointer
> is nil until it is actually moved over a text window, and this is what
> I see after loading the fix.
>
> Note that Marcel is away for another week or so doing PhD stuff, but
> I am quite confident that he will agree with the above, so I suggest
> merging the fix now so that we don't leave it on Marcel's overloaded
> to-do list when he gets back :-)
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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