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- From: burke@vxdesy.desy.de
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- Subject: Re: Improved filer
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.185642.1@vxdesy.desy.de>
- Date: 20 Dec 92 18:56:42 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.010804.5214@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>, jwil1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (TMOTA) writes:
- > burke@vxdesy.desy.de writes:
- >
- >>You don't need a separate window, you can set the hot-key bit on the filer
- >>window. The problem is more one of clashes between a foreground application and
- >>hot keys (e.g. DeskEdit traps just about every normal keycode). You really need
- >
- > WHY?
- > You can only have a filer-selection in a single window anyway, so where
- > is the problem with simply placing the input focus in the filer-window when
-
- You could do this, but I'm not sure if it's in accord with Acorn's conventions
- to give input focus to a display-type window. Also, what if you're filer allows
- you to have selected files in more than one window?
-
- There's also a more general point that it would be nice to be able to send
- hot-key codes to an application, rather than having to select a window; indeed
- the whole idea of needing to open an invisible window (and use up a valuable
- handle under RO 2!) just to get sent keypresses is remarkably silly. Why
- couldn't you just request the key-press event with a bit in the poll mask?
-
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