Windows menu palette & insertion point

[Scott Morrow]

Eric,
Thanks for the response.  I haven't found that to work when the menu  
button is in a window that is different from the window containing  
the field.

-Scott Morrow

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On Feb 26, 2007, at 1:00 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> Set the traversalOn of you menu buttons to false should' solve your  
> problem:
>
> Setting the traversalOn to false for any object means that this  
> object no longer can become the active (focused) object.
> Then the focus can stay on your field.
> Hope this helps.
>
> Le 26 févr. 07 à 08:42, Scott Morrow a écrit :
>
>> I have an application that, under Windows, provides a menu bar on  
>> a  palette.  This has been a fine solution for most things but I  
>> am losing the insertion point in fields whenever the user goes to  
>> the palette window to select a menu item.  This is particularly  
>> problematic for Copy & Paste.
>>
>> Do I need to constantly keep track of the selectedChunk (and  
>> worse)?  I was hoping that there might be some half-way clean  
>> method for doing this that I'm missing because what I'm imagining  
>> right now seems pretty messy.
>>
>> -Scott Morrow
>
>
> Best Regards from Paris,
> Eric Chatonet
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