| Re: Button Widget won't focus [message #35877] |
Fri, 25 July 2003 04:55 |
Haje Korth
Messages: 651
Registered: May 1997
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Peter,
you are lucky the TAB key works at all in your environment.On Windows it
does not work at all. However, a feature request has already been made to
RSI to implement TAB switching. I am waiting for that, too.
Haje
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"Peter Payzant" <pce@accesswave.ca.nospam> wrote in message
news:vhXTa.45803$PD3.4489402@nnrp1.uunet.ca...
> Hi, all-
>
> I'm a new IDL programmer - all of three weeks seniority - and I'm
stumbling
> my way through some of IDL's idiosyncracies. Here's one:
>
> I have a typical widget-based interface, with a stack of bases, text
> widgets, labels, and buttons. The environment is X-windows and Unix.
>
> With the interface running, I can hit the TAB key on my keyboard and watch
> as the focus shifts from widget to widget on the interface. However, for
> some reason, the focus never goes to the last button I added. This button
is
> labelled "Cancel", but otherwise is similar to the other buttons on the
> interface.
>
> Is there some reason why this button won't focus, or is it just me?
>
> A second question: how do I programmatically emulate what happens when I
hit
> the TAB key?
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter Payzant
> Halifax, NS
>
> pce@accesswave.ca.nospam
> (delete the obvious)
>
>
>
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