Re: [Boa Constr] Focussing the shell

[Werner F. B. <wer...@fr...>]

Derek,

Derek Croxton wrote:
> I want to make one tiny change to Boa-constructor.  After spending two 
> hours on it last night, I have come to the conclusion that either I am 
> not very smart, or it takes longer to get into the code than I thought 
> it would.  I was wondering if someone who know Boa could give me a nudge 
> in the right direction.
> 
> One thing that has always bothered me about Boa (which I otherwise love) 
> is that the cursor does immediately appear when I switch to the shell 
> tab, so I have to click on the appropriate place before I can start 
> typing.  I thought all I would have to do to get the cursor up 
> automatically would be to call the right method on the text control, 
> possibly just setting focus.  I figured out where the event takes place, 
> but nothing that I do has succeeded in getting the cursor to appear.
> 
> The problem may be related to the fact that I am using Linux, since I 
> see that there is a proxy panel underneath the shell, and I thought 
> maybe that might be getting the focus instead of the shell.  Still, I 
> would have thought that calling
> 
>     self.shell.SetFocus()
> 
> or
> 
>     self.shell.EnsureCaretVisible()
> 
> would have worked; but it doesn't.
> 
> I plainly don't have a grasp of how Boa works, so I was hoping that 
> someone who might understand the issues better than I could suggest some 
> other things I might look at.  I don't want to spend a whole day fixing 
> this one issue, but it would be really nice if I could somehow get it to 
> work.
Unless I misunderstand what you want this works for me on my Vista box.

Just noticed that you are on Linux, so I had a quick try on my Ubuntu 
box and there I can that if I switch back to the shell the cursor is not 
shown.

Maybe your SetFocus call is to early, did you try:

wx.CallAfter(self.shell.SetFocus)

Werner
> 
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Derek
> 
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