From:	Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject:	Re: ALLEGRO: Problems with keyboard shortcut to edit box
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:28:48 +0100
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Nick Plant writes:
>The problem is, I can't get the shortcuts to the edit boxes working
>properly.

What do you think they ought to do? If you put the ASCII code of the
keyboard shortcut (case insensitive, use control codes for ctrl+key eg.
1=ctrl+a, 2=ctrl+b, etc) in the 'key' field of the dialog object,
pressing that key should move the input focus to the object. This will
only work if the currently focused object doesn't grab the keypress for
itself, though, so if you are already in an edit box, the shortcut needs
to be a control code rather than a regular keypress...

>Also, the tab key doesn't move from the last edit box to the first toggle
>button.

It doesn't: that's just the way I implemented it (tab is treated the
same as the right arrow key, so you have to use the left/up arrows to
move the other way). If you want to make tabs wrap in the more normal
manner, change the move_focus() routine in gui.c, and send me the diffs
so I can include them in the next version (I might do it myself someday,
but won't have time for a while).


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