Keyboardinput and overrideredirect

Possibly one of the gurus can help me.

I want to open a dialog w/out WM decoration (kind of Welcome with input
fields ). So I use "wm overrideredirect .welcome 1"

If  I do this I can not get any keyboard input into my entry widget:

wm withdraw .
toplevel .welcome
wm geometry .welcome 100x50
wm overrideredirect .welcome 1
entry .welcome.smb
button .welcome.exit -command exit -text exit
pack  .welcome.smb .welcome.exit -expand 1 -fill both
focus .welcome.smb

What can I do?

"Tillmann Basien" <tab@basien n0spam.de> wrote in message
news:2pejb6Fjuh0oU1@uni-berlin.de...
: Possibly one of the gurus can help me.
:
: I want to open a dialog w/out WM decoration (kind of Welcome with input
: fields ). So I use "wm overrideredirect .welcome 1"
:
: If  I do this I can not get any keyboard input into my entry widget:
:
: wm withdraw .
: toplevel .welcome
: wm geometry .welcome 100x50
: wm overrideredirect .welcome 1
: entry .welcome.smb
: button .welcome.exit -command exit -text exit
: pack  .welcome.smb .welcome.exit -expand 1 -fill both
: focus .welcome.smb


Does  "focus -force .welcome.smb" instead of "focus .welcome.smb" do the
right thing?

Jeff

no it does not, Jeff.
But with -force I get the cursor inside of the entry widget. Keyboard inputs
are still outside.
TAB

"Jeff Godfrey" <jeff_godfrey@pobox.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:10j46q58kbenu7d@corp.supernews.com...
> "Tillmann Basien" <tab@basien n0spam.de> wrote in message
> news:2pejb6Fjuh0oU1@uni-berlin.de...
> : Possibly one of the gurus can help me.
> :
> : I want to open a dialog w/out WM decoration (kind of Welcome with input
> : fields ). So I use "wm overrideredirect .welcome 1"
> :
> : If  I do this I can not get any keyboard input into my entry widget:
> :
> : wm withdraw .
> : toplevel .welcome
> : wm geometry .welcome 100x50
> : wm overrideredirect .welcome 1
> : entry .welcome.smb
> : button .welcome.exit -command exit -text exit
> : pack  .welcome.smb .welcome.exit -expand 1 -fill both
> : focus .welcome.smb
>
>
> Does  "focus -force .welcome.smb" instead of "focus .welcome.smb" do the
> right thing?
>
> Jeff
>
>

"Tillmann Basien" <tab@basien n0spam.de> wrote in message
news:2pelebFk1v0tU1@uni-berlin.de...
: no it does not, Jeff.
: But with -force I get the cursor inside of the entry widget. Keyboard
inputs
: are still outside.
: TAB
:
: "Jeff Godfrey" <jeff_godfrey@pobox.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
: news:10j46q58kbenu7d@corp.supernews.com...
: > "Tillmann Basien" <tab@basien n0spam.de> wrote in message
: > news:2pejb6Fjuh0oU1@uni-berlin.de...
: > : Possibly one of the gurus can help me.
: > :
: > : I want to open a dialog w/out WM decoration (kind of Welcome with
input
: > : fields ). So I use "wm overrideredirect .welcome 1"
: > :
: > : If  I do this I can not get any keyboard input into my entry widget:
: > :
: > : wm withdraw .
: > : toplevel .welcome
: > : wm geometry .welcome 100x50
: > : wm overrideredirect .welcome 1
: > : entry .welcome.smb
: > : button .welcome.exit -command exit -text exit
: > : pack  .welcome.smb .welcome.exit -expand 1 -fill both
: > : focus .welcome.smb
: >
: >
: > Does  "focus -force .welcome.smb" instead of "focus .welcome.smb" do the
: > right thing?
: >
: > Jeff


Hmmmm... I guess I don't know then.  Under Windows, your original code
worked except that I had to "click" in the entry widget before I could type.
With the addition of the "-force" option, the code worked as (I assume was)
expected...

Sorry, but I guess you'll have to wait on some other input from the group.

Jeff

"Tillmann Basien" <tab@basien n0spam.de> writes:

> no it does not, Jeff.
> But with -force I get the cursor inside of the entry widget. Keyboard inpu
ts
> are still outside.

I tried it on a couple of Linux computers with Kde and Icewm,
and [focus -force] does not work.  However [grab -global] did.

I would not expect plain [focus] to work.  Moreover, I think it
is incorrect behavior if clicking on an "overridedirect" window
gives it focus, because focus must be granted by the window
manager.

Donald Arseneau                          asnd@triumf.ca