> You're obviously doing something wrong, as you don't need this to be > able to type at all. > Have you by any chance created a B_AVOID_FOCUS window? I have not used B_AVOID_FOCUS. I have tried to use a lot of different ones in my constructor. After my app launches I can type in my textview (because I called MakeFocus in my constructor) but when another part of the app gets focus. I can't get the focus back to my textview by clicking on it. This is my constructor: TodoText::TodoText(BRect rect) : BTextView(rect, "text", BRect(0,0,100,100), B_FOLLOW_ALL_SIDES, B_FRAME_EVENTS | B_WILL_DRAW | B_PULSE_NEEDED | B_NAVIGABLE) { this->MakeSelectable(); this->MakeEditable(); MakeFocus(); } Niels.