Re: Documentation for focus policy ?

[Adam Fedor]

On Monday, October 27, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Yen-Ju Chen wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  There is a WindowFocus document in gnustep-back
>  though it offers pretty few information.
>  I feel that most of the focus problem is due to the lack of document.
>  Both GNUstep and window manager try to handle the focus,
>  and looking into it on both side is really painful.
>  It would be really nice to have some documentation about
>  the interaction between GNUstep and window manager.
I'm trying to rewrite Focus now, but it could be a while.


> === Iconify "Untitle-1" window by pressing iconify button
> Focus went to 0 (xwin 63)
> 8388780 lost focus on 7
> take focus:1 (current=7 key=0) <=== Focus set back on main menu (by 
> window manager, I guess)
> take focus:4 (current=7 key=0) <=== Focus set back on "File" submenu 
> (by GNUstep ?)
take focus is a message from the Window Manager telling the app that it 
should take keyboard focus on the specified window. Here 1 is the app 
icon, 4 is the main menu, I'm pretty sure. However, the main menu only 
takes focus as a last resort and tries to pass it off to any other 
window it can. It appears that somehow, it doesn't know that window 7 
(Untitled window) isn't visible. Probably another bug :-(
> Setting focus to 7
> Setting focus to 7
> Setting focus to 7 <=== "Untitle-1" window is deiconified 
> automatically.