[interfacekit] Re: Helping out

Axel Dörfler wrote:

I thought the focus _is_ the keyboard input, no?


In theory, yes, in practise, not exactly :-)
When a menu pops up, no hooks are called on the window either, and no visual effect would tell you that this menu is in fact another window that steals something from it's "parent". 
It is not aware that it lost the keyboard input.
I think the correct way in the app_server might be to have that mechanism of a parent window that has focus, but redirects all input to its top-most open menu window. Currently, it's system-wide, which is apparently not a good choice :-) 

That makes sense.

So is there any task you think I could work on as a Haiku newbie?
Probably not the menus since this seems to require more knowledge about the BeOS than I have. 

Cheers,
Christof

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