[fxruby-users] mdiclient windows do not always activate on click

[Joel VanderWerf]

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> I just noticed that MDIClient windows do not automatically become 
> current when they receive a mouse click, but only do so if the click 
> happens inside of an enabled widget. This may very well be correct, but 
> if so then what is the right way to handle it, if you want a more 
> familiar window-manager behavior (click to focus)?
> 
> For example, if you change the mditest.rb example like so...
> 
> --- mditest.rb  2007-04-18 16:19:59.000000000 -0700
> +++ mdi.rb      2007-04-27 14:44:54.000000000 -0700
> @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
>       scrollwindow = FXScrollWindow.new(mdichild, 0)
>       scrollwindow.verticalScrollBar.setLine(@font.fontHeight)
>       btn = FXButton.new(scrollwindow, TYGER,
> -      :opts => LAYOUT_FIX_WIDTH|LAYOUT_FIX_HEIGHT, :width => 600, 
> :height => 1000)
> +      :opts => LAYOUT_FIX_WIDTH|LAYOUT_FIX_HEIGHT, :width => 100, 
> :height => 100)
>       btn.font = @font
>       btn.backColor = FXColor::White
>       mdichild
> 
> 
> ...and then click on the empty area within one of the windows behind the 
> active child, then that window will not be made active.
> 
> However, adding the line
> 
>      scrollwindow.enabled = true
> 
> makes the behavior feel more normal (to me).
> 
> Is there any drawback to enabling things like scroll windows (probably 
> also frames and matrixes, but I haven't tried them)?
> 
> Is there a better way to handle this?
> 

Here's a candidate. In the FXMDIChild's create method, enable the 
content window (which I guess is everything but the title bar and 
border), and handle mousedown:

   def create(*)
     super
     contentWindow.enable
     contentWindow.connect(SEL_LEFTBUTTONPRESS) do
       parent.setActiveChild self
       false
     end
   end

Unfortunately, a mouse click in (for example) a label inside of the 
content window doesn't get caught this way. Still looking for something 
better...

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       vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407