[Plib-devel] PUI: When do we deactivate a widget

[Fay J. F C. AAC/W. <joh...@eg...>]

Gentlemen,

	A question has come up in my application as to whether an active
widget should be deactivated (and its down-callback invoked) when the user
next clicks a mouse or when the user next activates a (different) widget.
At the moment the behaviour is the former, but I need for it to be the
latter under some circumstances.  Three years ago it was changed from the
latter behaviour to the former (see "pu.cxx" version 1.41-42), presumably to
fill some need.  I would like to add a new field to "puObject" called
"when_to_deactivate" and give it allowed values of "deactivate on mouse
click" and "deactivate on next widget."  In addition, I will need to change
the "puMouse" code around lines 410-415 from "doHit" to "checkHit",
returning TRUE if "checkHit" works and returning FALSE if it doesn't.

	If anybody objects to these changes, please let me know and we'll
try to work something else out.  Otherwise, I will need someone to put the
files into CVS for me.

John F. Fay
joh...@eg...
850-729-6330