gui navigation problem

[Christopher Dawson]

Bill Medland wrote:

>On May 13, 2004 07:00 pm, Christopher Dawson wrote:
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>>Hi there,
>>
>>We recently got a clarion based point-of-sale and stock management
>>system called Winstore (http://www.mms.com.au/fs_winstore.htm) running
>>under wine. It all seems to run really well apart from some weird gui
>>navigation stuff.
>>
>>The TAB and RETURN keys don't progress to the next element as they would
>>normally. This only seems to be a problem with this application -- other
>>ones that I've tested work fine -- and probably has something to do with
>>the weird clarion gui. Has anyone experienced similar problems to this,
>>or can they suggest how I might attempt to fix it?
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>If the program is actually a Visual Basic app (and I wouldn't be surprised if 
>it is) then I am not surprised.  We have had problems with the field 
>traversal for VB dialogs and OCXes in our app.  We never did totally fix it; 
>typically we work around it by modifying our app.
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I don't see any of the VB runtimes anywhere, but in any case it seems to 
be a problem in one form or another with certain apps.
Bugs 1264 and 1858 describe similar stuff.

I might try running the app without a window manager.

Thanks,

Chris