TextField on DrawingArea loses focus when mouse pointer gets outside

Hi,

I have a program using a drawing area to display some kind of web
pages. On these pages combined widgets (Form widget with a listbox,
TextField and Buttons) can be placed. The behaviour I encountered was,
that keyboard input is only directed to the TextField as long as the
mouse pointer in above the TextField widget. But the TextField should
get and hold the keyboard focus by clicking in it.
It seems as if the XmNkeyboardFocusPolicy is set to XmPointer, but it
is not set this way.

Can anyone tell me, how this behaviour can be changed?

Thanks, Sven

Check your resources again. The only time I've seen this was when
someone decided to (incorrectly) set mouse focus by putting
*keybordFocusPolicy: POINTER to all widgets into their Xdefaults file.

"Sven" <sven@ast.dfs.de> wrote in message
news:1138121775.858133.162370@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have a program using a drawing area to display some kind of web
> pages. On these pages combined widgets (Form widget with a listbox,
> TextField and Buttons) can be placed. The behaviour I encountered was,
> that keyboard input is only directed to the TextField as long as the
> mouse pointer in above the TextField widget. But the TextField should
> get and hold the keyboard focus by clicking in it.
> It seems as if the XmNkeyboardFocusPolicy is set to XmPointer, but it
> is not set this way.
>
> Can anyone tell me, how this behaviour can be changed?
>
> Thanks, Sven
>[/color]

There are several things that can caues this type of behaviour, one of them
being the XmNkeyboardFocusPolicy setting.

There can also be a LeaveNotify event handler registered on the TextField
that re-eirects the input focus, or the translation table may have been
overridden for <LeaveWindow> .

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Fred L. Kleinschmidt
Boeing Associate Technical Fellow
Technical Architect, Software Reuse Project