you might consider switching to gladevcp for less dangerous results. 

This particular issue was addressed here - see Section 10: 
http://www.linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui/gladevcp.html#_implementation_note_key_handling_in_axis

-mah

Am 12.11.2011 um 13:41 schrieb John Thornton:

> On my plasma when I type a number into the spinbox and tweak the up/down 
> key to make it take the number the spinbox text area keeps the focus 
> from the key board even after you tweak the up/down key. Many a time 
> when EMC would not run my program I look a the spinbox and see "81rrr" 
> and start clicking on different tabs till the focus leaves the spinbox. 
> I think I'll try a slider to see if if works better for me.
> 
> John
> 
> On 11/12/2011 6:21 AM, andy pugh wrote:
>> On 12 November 2011 06:03, Chris Morley<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> 
>>>> There was a patch that mapped "enter" to spinboxes in pyVCP,
>> ...
>>>> Is there a reason that that has never made it into a released branch?
>>> Yes I believe it was because it stole focus and left hitting estop (ESC)
>>> impossible so was deemed dangerous.
>> However, it doesn't stop you typing numbers in the box, just makes it
>> tedious and/or misleading so I am not entirely sure that the logic
>> stacks up.
>> I wonder if it would be possible to map "esc" into "lose focus,then esc"?
>> 
> 
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