Can't hilite buttons on Mac?

Ian Wood ian at azurevision.co.uk
Wed Jan 28 06:25:37 EST 2004


On further investigation, it is the focusin & focusout handlers that 
are not getting triggered when using Mac OS Appearance Manager or Mac 
OS Emulated views.  Nothing in bugzilla, so it's time to sit down & 
write out some bug reports. : (

Ian

On 28 Jan 2004, at 11:00, Ian Wood wrote:

> Another sort-of-newbie question.
>
> Once upon a time on a series of buttons...
>
> on mouseUp
> 	focus on me
> 	answer -- add feedback text in here
> end mouseUp
>
> on focusIn
> 	set hilite of me to true
> end focusIn
>
> on focusOut
> 	set hilite of me to false
> end focusOut
>
> on tabKey
> 	focus on button --wherever you want to move to in here
> end tabKey
>
> on returnKey
> 	send "mouseUp" to me
> end returnKey
>
>
> It all works, and with Look & Feel set to Windows or Linux it's fine, 
> but set to Mac Appearance Manager or Mac Emulated none of the buttons 
> show a hilite, which makes it useless as you have no feedback which 
> button you are about to activate with the Return key.
>
> OS X 10.3.0, Rev 2.1.2
>
> This is a brand new test stack with nothing but three buttons tabbing 
> in a loop, none of the Basic Properties seems to make a difference.  
> I've found Bug#: 918 which seems to be the opposite, showing a hilite 
> even when it is set to false.  Is this likely to be the same bug, and 
> does anyone have a workaround?
>
> Ian
>
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