No Input Focus for Draw Widgets

Name: J.D. Smith
E-mail Address: jdsmith@as.arizona.edu
IDL version: IDL 5.6
Platform and OS: All UNIX versions of IDL.

Description of Behavior: The INPUT_FOCUS keyword to WIDGET_CONTROL does not
set the input focus of draw widgets. This makes it nearly impossible to program
keyboard input events for draw widgets.

Example Code:  WIDGET_CONTROL, theDrawWidget, /INPUT_FOCUS

Know Workarounds or Fixes: None.

RSI Technical Support Response:

You are right ... on all UNIX platforms I tried here, this
"WIDGET_CONTROL, /INPUT_FOCUS" call is not working as advertised. I
have entered new report C.R.I.D. #28651 in our bug-tracking
system. Hopefully, this will be a simple enough issue, so that it
can be fixed before the final release of the next IDL, due out early
this summer.  Thanks for your persistence, and all your testing.