[haiku-appserver] Re: Focus
- From: "Chris Peel" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:27:29 -0000
Add it as an option in one of the preference applets maybe? Start with the
new model as the default and then have a 'Use legacy BeOS focus handling'
checkbox...
-----Original Message-----
From: haiku-appserver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:haiku-appserver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jonathan Thompson
Sent: 18 November 2005 04:51
To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [haiku-appserver] Re: Focus
The problem you may run into is that existing applications may depend on
those semantics, however ugly they might seem, so that something you remove
as a messed up feature turns out to become a bad dream.
Nothing like the present to plan your future to study the past, which keeps
getting larger at the same rate future appears at its present rate. -
Jonathan Thompson 23/06/05
> -----Original Message-----
> From: haiku-appserver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:haiku-appserver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Peel
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:31 PM
> To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [haiku-appserver] Re: Focus
>
>
>
> You can - click the 'Font:' menu button twice (that is, once
> to pop open the menu and once again to close it), focus is
> then returned to the textbox! I agree though, this is a
> terrible UI 'feature' and one Haiku could certainly do without... :D
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: haiku-appserver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:haiku-appserver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Michael Lotz
> Sent: 17 November 2005 22:02
> To: haiku-appserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [haiku-appserver] Re: Focus
>
>
> I just wanted to add another "testcase". The settings window of the
> FontDemo under R5 is a floating window. When you first start
> it up, the
> output window and the settings window look both active (tab
> is yellow)
> and the settings window has some kind of focus. If you click
> inside the
> text control to change the text it will get focus and you can write
> away. If you now click into the output window, the settings
> window will
> lose it's active look (tab goes gray). Most controls still
> work, you can
> drag the sliders, hit the checkbox and button - but you
> cannot get into
> the textcontrol anymore. Clicking inside of it has no effect on the
> focus, neither does clicking anywhere else inside the
> settings window.
> You have to explicitly click the tab or the border of the settings
> window to get to the textcontrol.
> This is _very_ confusing and unintuitive. Would be great if
> we could do
> without copying this behaviour.
>
> Regards
> Michael
>
>
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