G'day perl4jdd,

Welcome to the monastery.

"Currently I have to move and click the mouse to command prompt windows to get the focus, please show me how to automatically get focus in command prompt windows without using the mouse."

Initially, I had a bit of a chuckle envisioning how you were hoping to achieve this: some sort of widget mind control perhaps :-)

Did you want to use keystrokes instead of the mouse? If so, the obvious answer would to use Alt-Tab (or equivalent on your system) to change from one application window to another.

You could set up a Tk::Button with '-command => sub { $mw->iconify }' (see Tk::Wm for details of the iconify() method). [You can invoke buttons using just keystrokes; however, a mouse is more usual.]

If you wanted this to happen in response to some GUI event, have a look at Tk::bind.

As you can tell, I'm flailing around in the dark somewhat. If you provide a clearer description of what you do want to do, as opposed to what you don't want to do, a better answer may be forthcoming.

-- Ken

In reply to Re: Command prompt windows by kcott
in thread Command prompt windows by perl4jdd

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