[mcclim-devel] Drei and input focus

[Troels Henriksen]

Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cantab.net> writes:

> I don't think that this makes a fool out of you, but I also don't
> think it's the Right Thing.

Is it better than the Old Wrong Thing? If so, it might be an
acceptable interim fix.

> This is in the nature of a workaround: setting the focus to whatever
> toplevel window is under the pointer.  That might work by coincidence
> for many applications, in the case that I described in my original
> mail, but I don't think it's defined to work: if the window over which
> I have moved my mouse has multiple input widgets, it's not clear which
> will win the focus battle, if that application is not programmed such
> that the toplevel window will distribute events to its children.

Well, fortunately McCLIM is programmed to do this. :-) AFACS, this
would not affect any other programs on the X server.

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