| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2415.1 | No customization, hacks are possible though. | SCAM::DIAL | | Fri Mar 09 1990 18:53 | 8 |
| I know of no customizations for Decterm to make it start up with input
focus (it would be nice.) You can accomplish it as you said by getting
the window id and using set input focus, or send event (take focus
event). These things are possible, but not entirely straightforward.
Its easier to get into the habit of clicking in the window before
typing.
Barry
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| 2415.2 | Would violate conventions, is a window manager issue | OPHION::MIKEY | Mike Yang | Fri Mar 09 1990 20:40 | 4 |
| This (having DECterm start up with input focus) is really not something
DECterm can do without violating the ICCCM. It is really a window
manager issue. The Motif window manager (mwm), for example, has an
option to give input focus tonewly-created windows.
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| 2415.3 | For ALL new windows you can.
| STKHLM::HOLM | Ski the trees - Kiss the beavers | Tue Mar 20 1990 06:46 | 16 |
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Perhaps this can help you:
If you create DECW$XDEFAULTS.DAT (sys$login) and put in
wm*default.startupFocus: true
This specifies whether new windows should be given focus when
they first appear on the screen. "true" means windows will be
given focus. "false" means they will not. Default is false.
This is not supported but it works fine for me.
(VMS 5.3 & DECWINDOWS 2.0)
Bengt - TSC Sweden
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| 2415.4 | input focus works, but not title box | POBOX::FEIGLE | Yesssss, I can do that, I can do that | Wed Nov 14 1990 21:39 | 14 |
| I have a login in command that does the following:
create/term/wait/window=(icon="POBOX",title="POBOX Connection",...
I wanted the title like of the window to display POBOX Connection.
When you invoke the window, it give you the copywrite notice. When
you click on the box, it gives you the title line. I was hoping that
input focus in -1 would simulate the "click". However, I open 3 decterm
windows, each with a similar command to above (autostart), and
althought they each go through input focus, none will display the
appropriate title box until I manually click on them.
Any suggestions,
jff
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| 2415.5 | No easy work-around | HANNAH::BAY | Jim CNF ENTP PPASEL DECterm | Mon Nov 19 1990 14:13 | 15 |
| This behavior is by design. There are no simple work-arounds.
There have been numerous complaints about this, so it may be changed at
a future date. Many applications come up this way, but DECterm seems
to be special in that there tend to be numerous ones occupying the
screen simultaneously, each with a dedicated (sub) function. So, unlike
other applications, there seems to be a real need to be able to easily
identify them readily other than by examining thier contents, which is
not true of other applications.
Unfortunately, even if it is decided to make this change, it is
unlikely that it will happen soon.
Jim
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