Lubos Lunak ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wednesday 27 of July 2005 20:12, Billy Biggs wrote: > > If the app asks for focus to be given to a button, and we don't > > think the window with the button has focus, we call > > gdk_window_focus(). This is what happens when a new dialog is > > opened: we haven't yet got the event from GTK+ to tell us that the > > dialog has focus. > > Qt has actually two independent focuses - it has QWidget::setFocus() > and QWidget::activateWindow(), first one just setting the internal > focus inside one toplevel window, the other one causing window > activation and changing the X focus. If you want to focus something > in a dialog, just setFocus() does the job, assuming the window also > has or will get the X focus. QWidget::activateWindow() is rarely > used, as it means fighting the window manager policy. > > No idea how Gtk handles this, but I'd expect something similar.
SWT also has a setActive()/forceActive() pair of methods on our window class, but regardless setFocus() is defined to also activate the window, and I think changing that at this point would almost undoubtedly break code. :( -Billy _______________________________________________ wm-spec-list mailing list wm-spec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/wm-spec-list