Start Working: Put cursor in document box

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. When opening the Start Work dialog, tthe cursor is in the first line:
'If you want to create ....

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

To have the cursor in the box with the documents already used (starting
with <New Document>

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

AI 4.1.1./Linux
Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by wolfgang...@gmx.de on 12 Mar 2009 at 11:13

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I could not duplicate the reported problem running the Linux version of Adapt It
under Ubuntu Intrepid. Both the Linux and the Windows versions place the focus 
in the
list box of documents when the document page of the wizard first appears.
What version of Linux are you running Adapt It 4.1.1 on? What window manager 
are you
running under Linux? 

Original comment by adaptitbill@gmail.com on 12 Mar 2009 at 8:00

• Changed state: Invalid

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I am working with Ubuntu 8.04.

How to find out about the window manager I am using (no idea, how to do this)

Original comment by wolfgang...@gmx.de on 13 Mar 2009 at 6:46

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Ubuntu uses the Gnome window manager. If you were using Kubuntu, it would be 
the KDE
window manager. Ubuntu is also what I'm using, so there should be no difference 
in
the window behavior of what I am seeing and what you are seeing. Are you sure 
you did
not click or tab away from the focused list of documents in the Start Working 
dialog?
The only way I can get the cursor into that read-only text box at the top is to 
hit
the Tab key 6 times (or Shift+Tab twice) when the "Choose a Document" dialog  
appears.

Original comment by adaptitbill@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2009 at 10:51

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Sorry, I did not express it exactly, I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with KDE, so I 
should
have called it Kubuntu 8.04.

In this distribution, if I open the Start Working dialog, 
- the cursor sits in the first line (in front of 'If .... )and
- it takes 3 TABS to get in the document box.

I have a second machine with Ubuntu 8.04 (Gnome) and I will try it there and 
see,
what happens.

Original comment by wolfgang...@gmx.de on 16 Mar 2009 at 7:48

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By the way, do you know, if Basil is planned to use Kubuntu (with Kde) or Ubuntu
(with Gnome)?

Original comment by wolfgang...@gmx.de on 16 Mar 2009 at 7:49

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Loging in in Ubuntu under Gnome, has a similar problem, with the only 
difference, that 
- it takes 2 TABS to get into the document box.

Installing Adapt It on a different machine (with Ubuntu 8.04/Gnome installed), 
gives
the same:

If I open the Start Working dialog, 
- the cursor sits in the first line (in front of 'If .... ) and
- it takes 2 TABS to get in the document box.

Original comment by wolfgang...@gmx.de on 16 Mar 2009 at 2:43

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Thanks Wolfgang for explaining what is happening in Hardy. We do not have 
anyone on
our team that has time to test Adapt It on every system and distro. I have 
verified
that, internally, Adapt It does ask the system to set the focus to the list of
Projects (when the project page of the Start Working... wizard appears), and it 
also
sets the focus to the list of documents (when the document page of the Start
Working... wizard appears). I am currently running Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, and 
what you
describe does not happen on Intrepid. In an Intrepid Ubuntu system, the 
system/window
manager does precisely what Adapt It asks it to do (sets the focus to the list 
box).
To see if I could duplicate what was happening on your Hardy installation, I 
used
VirtualBox to create a pure Hardy installation, and I found that Hardy does 
indeed
exhibit the characteristics you describe even though it is running the same 
version
of Adapt It that is running on my Intrepid system! Therefore, I have to conclude
(sigh) that there must be an underlying difference in the way some of the Linux
distros are handling the command to set the program focus on certain dialog 
controls.
Adapt It is acting correctly, but I'm afraid there is probably little I can do 
to
change that situation with Hardy, since Hardy appears to be ignoring Adapt It's
instruction to set focus to the list box. If I discover some way to overcome 
this
seemingly faulty behavior of Hardy, I'll certainly incorporate it into the 
program,
but I currently do not know of a way to solve this problem when Adapt It runs on
Hardy 8.04.

Original comment by adaptitbill@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2009 at 1:57

• Changed state: WontFix

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Hi Bill,

I think that this problem will solve itself by time. Anyway, it is not a 
serious one,
there is a simple workaround for it.

I was told not to change from Hardy to Inteprid, as there are too many bugs 
around,
Anyway, yesterday I started to use Xubuntu (Xfce) which is planned to be used in
Balsa and I will give you feedback, how it works there.

Original comment by wolfgang...@gmx.de on 19 Mar 2009 at 7:43