[racket] Two more focus questions

From: Robby Findler (robby at eecs.northwestern.edu)
Date: Wed May 4 08:38:29 EDT 2011

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Erich Rast <erich at snafu.de> wrote:
> Two more questions related to keyboard focus:
>
> 1.) Is it possible to change the default "gadget order" in a frame%?
> Right now, the first created gets the first focus. I have a text-field
> and a popup menu above a list-box, but would like to have the list-box
> get the default keyboard focus (i.e. when the frame is shown, without
> having to press tab to get there).

Call the focus method on the list-box.

> 2.) I have a frame% with text% fields in it and would like to bring it
> to the foreground programmatically. However, no combination of show and
> focus I've tried so far seems to actually move the keyboard focus from
> the window that currently has the focus to the frame that is moved to
> the foreground. The frame is moved to the foreground, but text% editors
> remain greyed out and the focus method does not seem to have any effect
> on them.

Are they enabled?

Robby


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