Re: [fltk.general] Key events not consumed in child window

2012-05-11 Thread MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK)
> > Hmm. Are you sure it is a key-down event, not a key-up? > > I think you are making a good point. The child process aterm is closing > on the key-down of [enter], but my app is mostly catching key-up events. > Maybe I can rework it to only work on key-down.Hopefully it will be simple > to tri

Re: [fltk.general] Key events not consumed in child window

2012-05-10 Thread Mike Lockmoore
> Hmm. Are you sure it is a key-down event, not a key-up? I think you are making a good point. The child process aterm is closing on the key-down of [enter], but my app is mostly catching key-up events. Maybe I can rework it to only work on key-down.Hopefully it will be simple to trigger my a

Re: [fltk.general] Key events not consumed in child window

2012-05-10 Thread MacArthur, Ian (SELEX GALILEO, UK)
> I've been trying to squash some usability annoyances lately. One issue > I've had is that I have a global key event handler that should catch the > enter key (user selects a file in the list window, then presses enter to > automatically run the preferred associated app for that kind of file). >

Re: [fltk.general] Key events not consumed in child window

2012-05-09 Thread Matthias Melcher
On 09.05.2012, at 21:25, Mike Lockmoore wrote: > Now, back in my filemanager, a shortcut keypress is passed to the global key > handler callback function with the enter key event. Hmm. Are you sure it is a key-down event, not a key-up? Once, 'system' returns, there is still a pending key-up wh

[fltk.general] Key events not consumed in child window

2012-05-09 Thread Mike Lockmoore
Hi. I've written a modestly successful file manager for Tiny Core Linux called Fluff, which is built with FLTK 1.1, since that's what's shipped with Tiny Core. I have some other FLTK apps out there too. I like FLTK, but I'm stuck on something. I've been trying to squash some usability annoya