At 14/06/00 20:49 +0200, Busch, Ciske wrote:
>Hi,

Hello

>I need a control that looks like a static text but
>allows it's text to be edited if the user
>mouse-clicks into it. After he has either pressed
>ENTER or TAB or after he has mouse-clicked somewhere
>else the control should look like a static text again and
>- most important - should not have keyboard focus anymore.
>
>(I tried to solve this by using a static text and opening
>a temporary editable-text at the same position after the
>user clicked into the static-text. Removing the editable-text
>works fine when using mouse-clicks but not when pressing
>enter or tab.)

Looks too twisted to be a good solution. I think you just should use an 
editable-text with the following arguments:
  (make-instance 'editable-text
    :background-color light-gray
    :border :none
    ...   )

It will look like a static text (Instead of using light-gray it would be 
better to use the background-color and the default-background-color functions)

Then you could define event handlers (on-click, on-kill-focus) to 
dynamically modify the background-color of the widget.

>Unfortunatly I do not know how to move the keyboard focus
>away from that control after the user has finished editing.

You should not have to bother about focus here.

>I tried to use the VIRTUAL-KEY-DOWN method to achieve this
>but neither the used dialog nor the editable-text receive
>that event.
>
>Can anybody give me a hint on what I am doing wrong here?

You should not need anymore to do this. If interrested in, looks at the 
subclass-widget function and the on-line document about events.

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