Re: keyboard or mouse - place bets now!

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From: Philip Newton
Subject: Re: keyboard or mouse - place bets now!
Date: 16:28 on 14 May 2004
On 14 May 2004 at 7:13, Peter da Silva wrote:

> Toolkits should also deliver events to the GUI object that was active
> when the event occurred, not the one that happens to be there when the
> main loop in the application gets around to handling THAT event.
> Anything else is a race condition, and thus hateful. 

Ooh yes.

And popups (e.g. reminders from calendar/scheduling programs) should 
not grab the keyboard focus, otherwise if you're typing and hit Space 
or Enter and the dialog box dismisses itself, you have no idea what 
just happened. Makes the whole point of a reminder useless if it 
dismisses itself that easily.

Cheers,
Philip

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