Hi list,

I asked this question here on the list a few days ago,

http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2023-February/223398.html

on how to write code that _sends_ certain keyboard events. I think
that I got a prototype of an answer for it, that "just" needs some
debugging... and then I started to work on ways to debug my prototype.

The ideal way to test sending keyboard events would be to have some
code that _receives_ and _handles_ keyboard events, and that runs
things like "Transcript show: evt" or "evt halt" when it receives a
keyboard event. I tried to adapt the code from these wiki pages

  https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1125 Programming Morphs (Active Essay)
  https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1216 Programming morphs - page 7 -
keyboard events
  https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3503 Morphic Key Events

without much success, and I also tried to modify the keyboard
exerciser - i.e., this:

  "World menu -> objects (o) -> Categories -> Demo -> Exercise Keyboard"
  KeyboardExerciser new openInWorld.

...and then I saw a way to play with keyboard handlers that does not
require creating any classes or modifying any methods, and that can be
run entirely from a workspace with "do it"s and "print it" in the
right places. It is here:

  "The first lines were adapted from:
    https://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/2188 PolygonMorph"

  a := Array with: 50 at 100 with: 200 at 300 with: 100 at 400.
  b := (PolygonMorph
          vertices: a color: Color red
          borderWidth: 1 borderColor: Color black).
  World addMorph: b.
  b beSmoothCurve.
  b beStraightSegments.

  b vertices.
  b vertices at: 1.
  b vertices at: 1 put: 40 at 100.
  b vertices at: 1 put: 50 at 100.
  b vertices at: 1 put: 40 at 100. b computeBounds.
  b vertices at: 1 put: 50 at 100. b computeBounds.

  a at: 1 put: 40 at 100. b computeBounds.
  a at: 1 put: 50 at 100. b computeBounds.

  b color.
  b color: Color banana.
  b color: Color fern.
  b color: Color red.

  e := EventHandler new.
  b eventHandler.
  b eventHandler: nil.
  b eventHandler: e.

Now how do I change that event handler in interesting ways?
Does this make sense?

  e on: #keyStroke send: #halt to: b.

Also, is there a way to transfer the keyboard focus to the
PolygonMorph with a "do it" in that workspace? I guess that we
need to run the method #newKeyboardFocus:, but how exactly?
Anyone has examples to share?

  Thanks in advance,
    Eduardo Ochs
    http://anggtwu.net/eev-squeak.html