Focussing the shell

Derek Croxton <croxton3-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.ide.boa-constructor.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I want to make one tiny change to Boa-constructor.
After spending two hours on it last night, I have come to the
conclusion that either I am not very smart, or it takes longer to get
into the code than I thought it would. I was wondering if someone who
know Boa could give me a nudge in the right direction.

One thing that has always bothered me about Boa (which I otherwise
love) is that the cursor does immediately appear when I switch to the
shell tab, so I have to click on the appropriate place before I can
start typing. I thought all I would have to do to get the cursor up
automatically would be to call the right method on the text control,
possibly just setting focus. I figured out where the event takes
place, but nothing that I do has succeeded in getting the cursor to
appear.

The problem may be related to the fact that I am using Linux, since I
see that there is a proxy panel underneath the shell, and I thought
maybe that might be getting the focus instead of the shell. Still, I
would have thought that calling

self.shell.SetFocus()

or

self.shell.EnsureCaretVisible()

would have worked; but it doesn't.

I plainly don't have a grasp of how Boa works, so I was hoping that
someone who might understand the issues better than I could suggest
some other things I might look at. I don't want to spend a whole day
fixing this one issue, but it would be really nice if I could somehow
get it to work.

--
Sincerely,
Derek

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