[Xerte] default button

Tue Oct 28 14:00:43 GMT 2008

I do not see them at all. Must be doing something very wrong here. I'll
leave it for now, because some other projects need attention; perhaps next
week I see what is wrong at a glance. Just had a wisdom tooth
pulled, perhaps I have to find some wisdom again... Thanks for all the
feedback Julian.

Elly

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

>  You don't see the yellow rectangle for custom buttons? They do work for
> custom button here.
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Elly Langewis
> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 28, 2008 10:21 AM
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> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] default button
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> Hi Julian,
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> Well, there is no urgency. It seems to work for TextEntry interactions, and
> in the model you use setFocus in exactly the same way. Enough other things
> to figure out to keep me busy, and this is just a minor problem.
>
> Is there btw something I should do (or not do) to make the yellow boxes
> appear when the user presses the Tab? I take it they should work for custom
> buttons as well?
>
>
>
> Elly
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> I can look into it. I wonder whether this is the right way to do things -
> the selection is usually set by the user, and I'd expect the user in Xerte
> to move the focus around using the tab key.
>
>
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk on behalf of Elly Langewis
> *Sent:* Mon 27/10/2008 16:54
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> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] default button
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> Ok now I do not understand it anymore.
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> 1. For a TextEntry I can only set the focus in a script icon that is at the
> same level as the TextEntry (hanging off the interaction icon). When I don't
> set the focus, the user has to click at the TextEntry box first. When I do
> set the focus, the user can type the answer right away. When I put the
> script icon on any other place, this does not work.
>
> If I track the focus with selection.getFocus() it is undefined, before and
> after I set the focus. But it works.
>
>
>
> 2. If I try to do the same for a button response, the focus is not changed.
> (no focus, or if another button had the focus, it still has)
>
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> 3. The perpetual menu button has the focus, even if there is an interaction
> with a number of other buttons (the menu intself), and I press one of these
> (for paragraph 1). After that, the menu button still has the focus.
>
>
>
> Can anybody shed a light on this? It feels like I am doing several things
> wrong, but how should I do it then?
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>
> Thanks in advance,
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>
>
> Elly
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Elly Langewis <e.a.langewis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> I got it to work with the rs property without quotes, for a text response.
> I do not succeed to set the focus to another perpetual button. Strange.
>
>
>
> Elly
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Elly Langewis <e.a.langewis at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Julian,
>
>
>
> Whatever I type as myButtonID - ID, rs, name, or
> '_level0.engine.IFC.FW_ENT.Int_MC7.but9' - the focus does not change
> (debug(Selection.getFocus()). Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? As the
> get does work, I think the set should work too.
>
>
>
> Elly
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Selection.setFocus(myButtonID) I think.
>
>
>
> You can listen for rootIcon.onKeyDown to listen for keypresses, so you can
> have an event responses for y and n and the yes / no buttons as well. Being
> able to define the action key would be useful – I'll look at that next week.
>
>
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>
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> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Elly Langewis
> *Sent:* Friday, October 24, 2008 4:48 PM
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* Re: [Xerte] default button
>
>
>
> Thanks Julian, that explains.
>
> Is it possible to set the focus to a certain button? And is it possible to
> make a button react to a certain key pressed, like when I have two buttons,
> yes and no, and want the user to be able to press Y or N (besides making a
> third response to catch that)?
>
>
>
> Elly
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Julian Tenney <
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> It's built in accessibility. It will only respond to keys whilst it has the
> focus. When you click elsewhere, the focus moves away from the button and it
> doesn't respond to keypresses. All the interaction responses can be
> controlled with the keyboard.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Elly Langewis
> *Sent:* Friday, October 24, 2008 3:41 PM
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] default button
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I've got a perpetual button ('Menu') in my Entry Frame. For some reason,
> when I have used the button (just once), this button will also get pressed
> when I hit the space bar. As I have not found yet how to let a button react
> to key responses I was quite surprised...
>
> Does anyone know what caused this behaviour? It disappeats after using a
> text entry response, but after hitting the button again it reacts to the
> space bar again.
>
>
>
> TIA
>
>
>
> Elly
>
>
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Elly Langewis
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Department of Biology
Utrecht University
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