[focus] doesn't show the actually selected window

[firelex]

Hi, all!
Can anybody tell me how does it work with the focus?
It's crazy, but I can't set it! There is a command

focus

window-name
to set the focus to window. But it doesn't work!

I (try to) set the focus at the beginning of my prog and then try to check if
it was set with

[focus]

up to the end of the start procs,
before the event loop begins. The result is always - nothing.

Sorry I can't give any example - the prog is too long.

The point is - does anybody know if there are any other things that
influence the focus setting?

(

focus -force

and

update

doesn't work as well)

Thanks a lot.

 

[ulis]

To effectively see the blinking cursor, you need to declare a widget to be focused inside the toplevel:

  wm title . root
  toplevel .top
  pack [entry .top.e1]
  pack [entry .top.e2]
  pack [entry .e]
  focus .
  update
  # . has focus
  after 2000
  focus .e
  update
  # .e has focus
  after 2000
  focus .top
  update
  # .top has focus
  after 2000
  focus .top.e2
  # .top.e2 has focus

HTH

ulis