Re: [Foxgui-users]FXButton and FXToggleButton with TOOLBAR style

[jeroen <je...@fo...>]

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:13 pm, Mathew Robertson wrote:
> > I think its better if we can add some API which can explicitly set the
> > focus capability.  While we're at it, I think we may also want to
> > differentiate between keyboard and mouse focus:
> >
> >
> > 	1) With no focus capability, the control never gets focus, period.
> >
> > 	2) With mouse focus capability, the control gets focus only when
> > 	   clicked on by the mouse.
> >
> > 	3) With keyboard focus capability, you can navigate focus to the control
> > 	   by the keyboard.
> >
> > 	4) With point-to-focus capability moves the focus to a control
> > 	   when the mouse moves over it.  This is useful for large work-area
> > 	   controls like FXText or GLViewer.
> >
> > 	5) Maybe we need wheel focus capability also.
> >
> > These flags will of course be changable by a new API; so you can always
> > change to the desired behavior.
> >
> > The navigation and mouse handling will have to be changed a bit, but we
> > can initialize the focus capability to be the same as what we have now,
> > with some changes to some controls (for example, a slider typically does
> > not work through keyboad so it would make sense to give it mouse focus
> > capability only).
> >
> > If anyone can see any flaws with this reasoning, please let me know...
>
> How about allowing parents to define whether their children can be
> focus'able.  So in the case of FXToolBar, all child widgets inherit their
> parents focus policy, so that
>
> 	6) Inherit focus policy from parent
>
> is a possible mode.  This may have an added benefit in that one could
> disable the focus to a group of widgets by simply disabling their parent.
>
> Mathew

Mathew,

You've never placed text fields and combo boxes into your toolbars?
I don't think this is a good idea; there is no precedent for this.


	- Jeroen


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