1. Win32Lib: Enable Focusability
I would like to focus an EditText (cursor blinking ready for input)
right off on starting my program. I tried onOpen and many other things.
It will work only if I call it from a MenuItem or PushButton.
Any Ideas?
Don Cole
SF
2. Re: Win32Lib: Enable Focusability
don cole wrote:
> I would like to focus an EditText (cursor blinking ready for input)
> right off on starting my program. I tried onOpen and many other things.
> It will work only if I call it from a MenuItem or PushButton.
> Any Ideas?
Better minds than mine will no doubt answer, but in the interests of
timeliness I recall that this won't work if you try to
setFocus(EditText) on Window open. You have to do it from Window activate.
Dunno about - blinking cursor - though!
--
Craig
3. Re: Win32Lib: Enable Focusability
don cole wrote:
>
> I would like to focus an EditText (cursor blinking ready for input)
> right off on starting my program. I tried onOpen and many other things.
> It will work only if I call it from a MenuItem or PushButton.
> Any Ideas?
>
The reason this happens is that the openWindow() (called from within WinMain)
always sets focus on the window just opened. The Activate event is
triggered *after* the window is opened.
The two methods are ...
WinMain( { PrimaryWindow, FirstFld }, Normal )
or
procedure Activate_PrimaryWindow(integer s, integer e, sequence p)
setFocus( FirstFld )
end procedure
setHandler(PrimaryWindow, w32HActivate, routine_id("Activate_PrimaryWindow"))
To set focus on any window's control when it is opened, you can also do ...
openWindow( { theWindow, theControl }, Normal)
BTW, all this is documented, with examples. It is not secret.
--
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia
4. Re: Win32Lib: Enable Focusability
don cole wrote:
>
> I would like to focus an EditText (cursor blinking ready for input)
> right off on starting my program. I tried onOpen and many other things.
> It will work only if I call it from a MenuItem or PushButton.
> Any Ideas?
You can either focus it on startup of the window
WinMain( {myWindow, myEditText}, Normal )
or, focus to it in the Activate event for the window.
setFocus(myEditText)
setIndex(myEditText, w32SelectAll)
-=ck
"Programming in a state of EUPHORIA."
http://www.cklester.com/euphoria/
