[Lazarus] Gtk2 focus problem with shortcut keys

Micha Nelissen micha at neli.hopto.org
Sat Oct 18 11:23:54 CEST 2008


Brad Campbell wrote:
> G'day all,
> 
> Here is another one.
> 
> Create a new form and place a TMainMenu, TEdit and TButton on the form.
> 
> Create a File/Quit menu and assign the quit menu the shortcut ctrl+W.
[..]
> Now, when the TEdit has focus, the shortcut does not work. The only way to get it to work is click 
> the button (to focus it). Now you can close the form with ctrl-W.

Probably the Gtk2/TEdit implementation handles Ctrl+W specially. It 
usually means erase previous word before cursor.

Micha



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