DesktopContainer name available to code?

[Keith_Culotta]

Getting off topic about Container Focus

With two of these containers in a window, the container FocusLost event fires in one of the containers when the window first opens. After that, tabbing or clicking between containers does not fire the event. This is with “Allow Focus” on or off.

A while later after more testing by removing and adding the container to the window, it happens that tabbing between the containers now triggers the FocusLost event every time. However, clicking from one container to another does not trigger the event.

I’m not sure how I might have created this kind of wonkyness, but it is starting to feel like the DesktopSearchField problem, where sometimes just having a search field present causes the interface to misbehave.

Layouts: The Tab key can send the cursor anywhere

Whatis Focus / What do ut do ? Google: Focus means you have selected the particular GUI element. I don’t get the use to set the focus to a Label, PopupMenu, etc. I do not get the use of a Container that tooks the whole window size that holds all controls. Oh, yes, I know: you like verbose programming: You need to write (If I understand Container): Container1.TextArea1.Text = "I love typing text on my keyboard" instead of: TextArea1.Text = "I love typing text on my keyboard" Also: I do…

https://tracker.xojo.com/xojoinc/xojo/-/issues/78428
https://tracker.xojo.com/xojoinc/xojo/-/issues/78527