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How can I get the focus on the scroll bar, by default?
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Re^8: how can i create a scrollbar in the main window using perl tk
by zentara (Cardinal) on Dec 19, 2008 at 12:02 UTC
    It depends on the code example. In the linked-text-widgets example I showed, just put a focus statement right before the MainLoop
    $yscroll->focus; # will bind the up/down arrow keys to the vertical s +crollbar MainLoop();
    In general, you can setup the focus order, but it can be a bit tricky. For instance the following allows you to tab around the 3 scrollbars, but the order is not as expected, the $xscrollright gets default since it was the last widget created....so you may need to play around with the order in which the scrollbars are created/packed, and the focus statements.
    $xscrollleft->focus; $xscrollright->focus; $yscroll->focus; MainLoop();
    here is a little example on forcing focus order( as usual, search groups.google.com for more examples)
    #!/usr/bin/perl use Tk; use strict; use warnings; #changes focus on ANY key BUT tab my $win = MainWindow->new(); $win->Button(-text=>'Other Window',-command=>\&otherwindow)->pack; sub otherwindow { my $otherwin = $win->Toplevel; my $foo = $otherwin->Entry->pack; my $bar = $otherwin->Entry->pack; my $baz = $otherwin->Entry->pack; my $boo = $otherwin->Entry->pack; my $baa = $otherwin->Entry->pack; &defineOrder($foo,$baa,$bar,$boo,$baz); } sub defineOrder { my $widget; for (my $i=0; defined( $_[$i+1] ); $i++) { # $_[$i]->bind('<Tab>', [\&focus, $_[$i+1]]); $_[$i]->bind('<Any-KeyPress>', [\&focus, $_[$i+1]]); } # Uncomment this line if you want to wrap around #$_[$#_]->bind('<Key-Return>', [\&focus, $_[0]]); $_[0]->focus; } sub focus { my ($tk, $self) = @_; $self->focus; } MainLoop();

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