Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Galleries and focus handling

[Luke Hart <lukeh@xxxxxxxx>]

Neil Howe wrote:

> Currently the galleries in Xara LX are stealing events that should be 
> processed by the main window. Eg. Using the layer gallery (docked or 
> undocked), click somewhere in the layer gallery window and then hit a 
> function key to try and switch tools. Nothing happens. Or use the 
> arrow keys to nudge your selected object. Again, nothing happens.
>  
>
> I believe focus handling took a long time to get right in the Windows 
> version originally (and in fact it’s not perfect today). Presumably 
> the correct behaviour is that the window with focus should process all 
> events that are meaningful to it and pass all others on. So if the 
> layer gallery for example doesn’t do anything with function key events 
> (as it shouldn’t) it should pass them on so that tool selection still 
> works.
>  
>
> Using this model we should end up with something better than the 
> Windows version. Eg. Right now if you try and use the arrow keys to 
> move up and down the font list in the Xtreme font gallery, nothing 
> happens in the gallery and your selected object gets moved! In this 
> case the font gallery should process the up/down arrow events itself 
> if it has focus.
>  
>
> The fact the new galleries aren’t working in this way in LX implies 
> that we’re not getting this ‘pass on unused events’ behaviour by 
> default. All non-modal windows should work this way, so do we need to 
> do some work at the framework level to make it happen? Or is this 
> something that needs to be implemented on a window by window basis?
>  
>
> Neil
Neil \ all,

As I've said before issues like this will happen as more control types 
are added which I haven't add handling for. Just by adding this handling 
I've got the keyboard handling to work in this case.
   Luke