[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Focus Problems

[Mahesh Soori <msoori@xxxxxxxx>]

Ed,

I've attached a better description of it and a screen shot of it.

Thanks for suggestions,
Mahesh

Ed Merks wrote:
> Hahesh,
>
> Your problems are quite mysterious and not something the rest of us 
> see.   The best advice is likely to attach focus listeners to the views 
> and try to determine what's causing them to get focus in that way.  
> Focus problems are often very tricky to figure out, but I doubt anyone 
> can help with just a description of symptoms and I doubt many folks are 
> prepared to help you debug this.  Asking your question in so many 
> newsgroups is a little like searching for the keys you lost in the back 
> yard out under the street light in front of the house because the light 
> is best for searching there...
>
>
> Mahesh Soori wrote:
> > Tom,
> >
> > Given the number of responses I have had, I'd say 3 forums definitely 
> > was'nt enough ;-)  Regardless, I dont see a platform.ui there is a 
> > platform.ua, but not ui.
> >
> > Anyway, thanks for the response.  At least one non answer makes it 
> > look like somewhat of an active community!
> > Mahesh
> >
> > Tom Schindl wrote:
> > > Please stop crossposting on 3 forums. 1 is enough. In your case you 
> > > can it best fits to platform.ui, I'd say.
> > >
> > > Tom
> > >
> > > Mahesh Soori schrieb:
> > > > Even stranger, if I Alt+Tab to a different application after 
> > > > switching to this perspective and then switch back, it works as 
> > > > expected.  I noticed that in Controll.forceFocus(), it blindly sets 
> > > > savedFocus to null and then back again to this as in 
> > > > shell.setSavedFocus (this);
> > > > Is this intentional?  Anybody back from the MemorialDay yet???
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Mahesh
> > > >
> > > > Mahesh Soori wrote:
> > > > > What is even stranger is that if I try to navigate with the 
> > > > > keyboard in View A (which contains a tree), the view is properly 
> > > > > focussed and expands the nodes as I would expect.  However, if I 
> > > > > click anywhere in the window, the focus jumps to View B (which has 
> > > > > a Pagebook and tables displayed in the Pagebook).  I have tried 
> > > > > calling setFocus(), etc.
> > > > >
> > > > > TIA,
> > > > > Mahesh
> > > > >
> > > > > Mahesh Soori wrote:
> > > > > > I have 3 views in a perspective, call it A, B and C.  When I 
> > > > > > switch to this perspective, the view A has the focus... but if I 
> > > > > > click on any of the other two views or the menu bar, the focus 
> > > > > > always goes to View B. This only happens once, after that the 
> > > > > > views get the proper focus.  I am using Tabbed Folders in the 
> > > > > > perspective to layout my views.  Has anyone else run into this 
> > > > > > strange behaviour?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Also, I want to add animated icons to certain nodes in a tree to 
> > > > > > indicate progress activity for that node. I have read in Eclipse 
> > > > > > release notes that animated gifs are now supported, but when I 
> > > > > > give an animated icons as the image for the node, its not animated.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > TIA
> > > > > > Mahesh