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#300 Typing the search string after hitting Ctrl-F needs mousing
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2006-06-04
2006-06-02
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Hi,
When typing Ctrl-F to start a string search, the Find
dialog appears. Fine. The problem is that, before
typing the string you want to look for, you have to
place the mouse pointer on the text entry field,
otherwise your keystrokes get lost. This is rather
annoying...
I hope this is not a Xaw bug and can be fixed in xdvi.
% xdvi -version
xdvik version 22.84.9 (Xaw toolkit)
Libraries: kpathsea version 3.5.4, T1lib version 5.1.0
%
This is from the Debian package tetex-bin 3.0-16.
Many thanks for your work and support.
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> I hope this is not a Xaw bug and can be fixed in xdvi.
I'm afraid it's a 'feature' of Xaw. If you compile with the
Motif toolkit (you'd need to install OpenMotif beforehand)
the text field gets focus as soon as the search window has
focus, which is better ...
So I'll close this bug as 'wontfix'.
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Oops, sorry, my comment was a bit premature ... turns out
that it *is* possible to force input focus for the text
field also in Xaw; patch is attached. Committed to
22.84.11-RC9 (STABLE) and 22.84.13-CVS11 (HEAD).
force input focus for text field
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Great, thanks!