XForms: Philosophy of input fields and browser

Michael Glickman (michg@alphalink.com.au)
Wed, 07 Apr 1999 22:33:23 +1000

# To subscribers of the xforms list from Michael Glickman <michg@alphalink.com.au> :

I have a pretty common case, when a pane includes a browser and several
inputs, connected to it (i.e. input fields are used to change the
informnation related to a current line in the browser).

Tabbing does not bring focus to a browser, that may be convenient:
use left/right arrows to move withing input field and up/down arrows to
change the current line without leaving the input field. However in
order to do this, the browser has to be selected with a mouse. Is there
a way to avoid using mouse (through a shortcut, fl_set_focus, etc) ?
This is really annoying.

I tried everything I could imagine, even XSendEvent to emulate mouse
click, but could not succeed. Some ideas ?

Thanks in advance.
Michael

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