please count my vote for Bills request
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Subject: Re: KeyListeners on ImageView
From: Bill van Melle <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue 08 Mar 2011 07:26:39 PM CST
>
> Can you elaborate and explain what behaviour you would expect
> to see? What seems broken?
>
>
> It seems like a principle of window-system focus rules that if I have
> one OS-window focused (all nicely indicated by a highlighted title bar
> or whatever mechanism the desktop manager uses), that keystrokes I
> type should not be taken as input to some other OS-window. I don't
> think most users' internal model of a window system goes any deeper
> than that (of realizing that different windows are collectively owned
> by some app and might have a single notion internally of focus), and I
> can't think offhand of any application I've run into that violated
> this principle.
>
> The behavior I'd want to see is that keystrokes go to a component in
> the focused OS-window, or if there is no focused component therein,
> that they are sent to the key listener, if any, of the Pivot Display
> that is hosted in that OS-window.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions about Display handling. I'll look into
> whether that will do the trick.
