Re: Keyboard input losses also on MS Windows

[Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...>]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Ethan Merritt wrote:

> On Monday 05 July 2004 05:07 pm, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> >
> > But now I've found a truly ghastly factor influencing one of the problems
> > I described: it depends on where the gnuplot text window pops up, relative
> > to the current position of the mouse.  If the mouse pointer is at rest
> > while starting wgnuplot.exe (current version) via the keyboard, and it
> > happens to be sitting *inside* the newly popped-up wgnuplot text window,
> > the first keypress will be lost.  This is insane.
> 
> OK.  So it takes one event (does Windows call them "events"?) before
> focus is given to the new text window.  

I'm sure it's not quite that simple.  By the time I press a key, at least
a dozen events must have been sent to that window (WM_CREATE, WM_PAINT,
WM_SETFOCUS, ...).  I'm not quite sure, but it *seems* that it also makes
a difference if I move the mouse around a bit before hitting that key.

> first event is something other than a keypress.  Or maybe there is an
> explicit "gain focus" call?

There is --- it just doesn't seem to take effect.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (br...@ph...)
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