[Dynapi-Dev] Widgit creation - Tab and Focus

[Darin K. <dka...@ef...>]

Heya guys,

Scott and I had a brief thread going last spring about having the concept of
"focus" shared amongst many widgits on the same page.
This is to facilitate "tabbing" between controls and the blinking of
"carets" for edits, etc...

One thought was to have a global constructor that each widgit would
"register" with.  The Dynapi would keep a list of the widgits in the order
they were created, this then becomes the "tab order".  Assuming we can
successfully trap the tab key in both browsers, the dynapi would catch it
first before bubbling it to the widgets.  It would then send an OnBlur()
event to whichever control currently had focus and an OnFocus() event to the
next in the list.

Any thoughts on if this could be acheived?  Anyone else see the need for it?

Also, how about a "standard" construction call for widgit builders to use?
Something like create(x,y,w,h,fgcolor,bgcolor,skin)

And maybe a set of standard events.
refresh() comes to mind.


-cheers!

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Darin Kadrioski
Applications/Internet Developer

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