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From: langz@athena.mit.edu (Lang Zerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ActivateGadget Use (Does it work?)
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Date: Tue, 8-Dec-87 15:24:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  8 15:24:19 1987
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In article <1861@cup.portal.com> Steve_A_Hales@cup.portal.com writes:
>I want to *activate* a string gadget upon entry to a dialog box.  I am using
>Aztec 3.4b's ActivateGadget for Version 1.2 of Kickstart  But it don't seem
>to work.
>
>I actually got it to display the cursor very quickly in the STRGADGET box,
>but then it disappears.

You wouldn't happen to be using HeliosMouse, would you?  I witnessed the same
phenomenon as a user, and later realized that what was happening was that after
the string gadget activated itself, HeliosMouse was telling the system that I
had clicked at the point where the mouse was.  That point normally was not in
the string gadget, so the "click" deselected the string gadget almost instantly
after it came into existence.

As my great-uncle used to say, "Hope this helps."

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