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#1435 OS X Aqua: event generate fails to trigger key bindings
The 'event generate' command seems to not be triggering
bindings on the target widget. For example, with the
following code, typing 'a' in the first entry wiget
should cause a <key-b> event to insert a b into the
second entry widget:
entry .e1
entry .e2
pack .e1
pack .e2
bind .e1 <Key-a> "event generate .e2 <Key-b> ; break"
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Upon further testing, this may not be specific to Aqua. I
have this problem also under Linux, at the least.
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The place that <Key> events are delivered to depends upon
the focus, and this is normally a Very Good Thing Indeed.
Are you sure that you've not got that messed up somehow? (I
normally stay away from doing key-event generation to
anywhere other than the current window precisely because
getting the focus right is hard.)
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I could indeed be incorrect about how the behavior should
work here. I checked my original program, and it DOES focus
on the other widget first before sending the event. I
tested the below revised script and it does work in Windows
and Linux, inserting a 'b' into .e2. It doesn't seem to
work for MacOS X Aqua though.
entry .e1
entry .e2
pack .e1
pack .e2
bind .e1 <Key-a> "focus .e2 ; event generate .e2 <Key-b> ;
break"
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