XForms: Multiline Input

Dick Middleton (dick@sqf.hp.com)
Thu, 26 Mar 1998 16:22:35 GMT

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Dick Middleton <dick@sqf.hp.com> :

> # To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) :

> > Anybody know why a Multiline Input object has obj->active set to zero whereas
> > a Normal Input object has obj->active set to 1?

> My guess is that this is because the Multiline Input object is really a
> composite of several objects -- scroll bars and a text area. The real objects,
> hidden in the spec definition probably have their active flags set.

> Is this causing a problem?

I'm tinkering with the tooltips library. These tooltips only work with active
objects. So I'm checking obj->active as a condition of adding a tooltip to
an object. Multiline Input seems anomalous in that this flag isn't set.

Dick

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