Window focus issue

[Johan Forsberg]

(Moving my question to the bug tracker as requested)

Quite frequently when navigating in kupfer something happens to move the keyboard focus away from kupfer so that I have to manually move it back. I am not sure what causes this, sometimes I guess it's caused by me inadvertently moving the mouse (touchpad etc) but not always.

Would it be possible to make kupfer steal the keyboard focus entirely while it's open? I guess still having the possibility to move things around with the mouse would be good (e.g. selecting text) but I can't really see any point in allowing keyboard focus for other windows while kupfer's window is open. It's not that big a deal to close and then reopen kupfer afterwards.

I realise that this would make kupfer's window sort of "modal" and this may be viewed as a Bad Thing...

[Karol Będkowski (karol-bedkowski)]

Hi,
Please check is attached patch solve this problem with your environment.
Window can lost focus, but Kupfer should still have "keyboard focus".

Regards,
Karol

[X (u78qir8a9-deactivatedaccount)]

2010/1/24, Karol Będkowski <email address hidden>:
> Hi,
> Please check is attached patch solve this problem with your environment.
> Window can lost focus, but Kupfer should still have "keyboard focus".
>
> Regards,
> Karol
>
> ** Attachment added:
> "0001-ui.browser-keep-keyboard-focus-even-main-window-lost.patch"

Hi,

This is interesting, is it not the pointer we want to grab? The
keyboard grab prevents even Kupfer's own global keybindings (triggers,
Alt+Tab, Ctrl+Space to hide kupfer again etc).

A demonstrative patch attached; we must find out how to let through
some mouse events and not others (let through all events on the window
frame, and anything but single clicks: drag and double-clicks).

ulrik