[haiku-appserver] Re: Focus

Hi,

> 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...

Obviously, there can only be one window with keyboard focus. For it to be 
possible to have two blinking cursors in two different windows, be they 
floating windows or not, only means Be screwed something up. The simple fix 
is for BWindow::IsActive() to mean "has keyboard focus". That's what I want 
to know as a developer from IsActive(). I do *not* want to know "is the tab 
highlighted". Since Axel has shown that two text controls with keyboard focus 
is possible on R5, and since it is clearly a bug, I would not even think 
about offering a "legacy" behaviour in some preflet. Simply not copy the bug 
and be done with it.
I know you have the fear of breaking existing apps. In this particular case, 
I think the work arround in the app (if there is even one app out there that 
tried to work arround this problem...), is probably only wasted CPU cycles 
after the fix. But no change for the end user I would guess.

Best regards,
-Stephan

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