--- a/View.st	Wed Jun 11 15:59:15 2014 +0200
+++ b/View.st	Fri Jun 13 23:07:01 2014 +0200
@@ -736,6 +736,19 @@
 
 !View methodsFor:'initialization & release'!
 
+assignKeyboardFocusTo:aConsumer
+    |wg|
+
+    wg := self windowGroup .
+    self graphicsDevice isWindowsPlatform ifTrue:[
+        wg focusView:aConsumer byTab:true.
+    ] ifFalse:[
+        aConsumer requestFocus.
+        "/ consumer requestFocus. - could be denied; but we force it here
+        wg focusView:aConsumer byTab:false.
+    ].
+!
+
 assignKeyboardFocusToFirstInputField
     "assign the keyboard focus to the first first keyboardConsumer.
      (in older versions, this used to favour inputfields over editFields;
@@ -759,13 +772,7 @@
     ].
     consumer := (consumer ? firstConsumer ? firstCursorConsumer).
     consumer notNil ifTrue:[
-        self graphicsDevice isWindowsPlatform ifTrue:[
-            self windowGroup focusView:consumer byTab:true.
-        ] ifFalse:[
-            consumer requestFocus.
-            "/ consumer requestFocus. - could be denied; but we force it here
-            self windowGroup focusView:consumer byTab:false.
-        ].
+        self assignKeyboardFocusTo:consumer
     ].
 
     "Modified: / 29-08-2006 / 14:32:30 / cg"
@@ -814,6 +821,6 @@
 !View class methodsFor:'documentation'!
 
 version
-    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libview/View.st,v 1.84 2014-04-03 14:34:55 cg Exp $'
+    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libview/View.st,v 1.85 2014-06-13 21:07:01 cg Exp $'
 ! !