[Urwid] Keys and focus handling

[Ian Ward]

Fabian Braennstroem wrote:
> Dear urwid users,
> 
> I am starting to take a look at urwid after a quite long brake again...
> so I am still a newbie :-)
> 
> I am a bit confused about the handling of button-press reactions and
> setting focus using keys for different widgets. I attached a small
> example. The aim is to show a help text or some more buttons on the
> right green 'box' in the inner-frame as soon as I walk through the
> buttons. The focused is set to the buttons, but as soon as I press one
> of the buttons I would like to focus to the current content of the right
> green column.
> It would be nice, if anyone has a hint, how to achieve this!?

You can use Column.set_focus() to move the focus to the right.

It doesn't look like there's anything selectable in the right column right now,
though.  You should use a selectable widget, or at least a ListBox of
unselectable widgets to handle user input when it takes the focus.

Ian