1. Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Mar 21, 2002
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I have a button (or two): constant Browse = create( PushButton, "&Browse", blah blah ... procedure onclickBrowse() blah blah onClick[Browse]=routine_id("onclickBrowse") works fine. Alt B correctly shifts focus to the button. At the mo, Alt B does not invoke onclickBrowse(). (not exactly surprised, I guess I ain't told it to yet) Question:: Do I need: onKeyDown [ xxx ] = routine_id("xxx") for *every* widget to point to the same routine, then, via getSelf() figure out what to do for eg Return, and trap/process Alt B (and all the other buttons) in one place? Is that the "best" way to code it? Can I rely on "onKeyDown[<not specified>]" looking up & invoking the parent, or not? Pete
2. Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Mar 22, 2002
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Pete, Maybe I'm not understanding, but as far as I can see you don't need to do *anything* other than set the ampersand in the name of the button to make alt-whatever activate the onclick event. This example works fine for me, with NO onKey events specified: -- code generated by Win32Lib IDE v0.10.6 include Win32Lib.ew without warning ---- -- Window Window1 global constant Window1 = create( Window, "Window1", 0, Default, Default, 400, 300, 0 ) global constant StatusBar5 = create( StatusBar, "StatusBar5", Window1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ) global constant PushButton2 = create( PushButton, "&PushButton2", Window1, 24, 36, 90, 30, 0 ) global constant PushButton3 = create( PushButton, "P&ushButton3", Window1, 196, 44, 90, 30, 0 ) global constant PushButton4 = create( PushButton, "Pu&shButton4", Window1, 52, 116, 90, 30, 0 ) ---- procedure PushButton2_onClick () setText(StatusBar5, "Button2") end procedure onClick[PushButton2] = routine_id("PushButton2_onClick") ---- procedure PushButton3_onClick () setText(StatusBar5, "Button3") end procedure onClick[PushButton3] = routine_id("PushButton3_onClick") ---- procedure PushButton4_onClick () setText(StatusBar5, "Button4") end procedure onClick[PushButton4] = routine_id("PushButton4_onClick") WinMain( Window1, Normal ) ----- Original Message ----- From: <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 4:22 PM Subject: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc I have a button (or two): constant Browse = create( PushButton, "&Browse", blah blah ... procedure onclickBrowse() blah blah onClick[Browse]=routine_id("onclickBrowse") works fine. Alt B correctly shifts focus to the button. At the mo, Alt B does not invoke onclickBrowse(). (not exactly surprised, I guess I ain't told it to yet) Question:: Do I need: onKeyDown [ xxx ] = routine_id("xxx") for *every* widget to point to the same routine, then, via getSelf() figure out what to do for eg Return, and trap/process Alt B (and all the other buttons) in one place? Is that the "best" way to code it? Can I rely on "onKeyDown[<not specified>]" looking up & invoking the parent, or not? Pete
3. Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Mar 22, 2002
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:56:42 -0800, Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> wrote: >This example works fine for me, with NO onKey events specified: Thanks, your example worked fine for me, but my code just don't I have studied it & studied it till I'm blue in the face and I just can't for the life of me see the difference between that & this: include win32lib.ew constant COMPARE = create( Window, "Compare", 0, 100, 100, 500, 180, 0), Browse = create( PushButton, "&Browse", COMPARE, 405, 40, 80, 25, 0 ), Compare = create( PushButton, "&Compare", COMPARE, 405, 75, 80, 25, 0 ), StatusBar5 = create( StatusBar, "No button pressed yet", COMPARE, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ) procedure onclickBrowse() setText(StatusBar5, "Browse button pressed") end procedure onClick[Browse]=routine_id("onclickBrowse") procedure onclickCompare() setText(StatusBar5, "Compare button pressed") end procedure onClick[Compare]=routine_id("onclickCompare") WinMain(COMPARE,Normal) Yours, even more confused than ever, Pete
4. Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Mar 22, 2002
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Pete, you have found a new bug in the library. The fix is simple though. In the routine called isHotKey() find the line : if window_class[ focus ] = BUTTON and (event = WM_KEYDOWN) then change it to : if window_class[ focus ] = BUTTON and ((event = WM_KEYDOWN) or (event = WM_SYSKEYDOWN)) There is still something else wrong somewhere in that it beeps when the control already has focus, but I'll work on that issue later. ------------- Derek. ----- Original Message ----- From: <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 4:53 AM Subject: Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:56:42 -0800, Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> wrote: >This example works fine for me, with NO onKey events specified: Thanks, your example worked fine for me, but my code just don't I have studied it & studied it till I'm blue in the face and I just can't for the life of me see the difference between that & this: include win32lib.ew constant COMPARE = create( Window, "Compare", 0, 100, 100, 500, 180, 0), Browse = create( PushButton, "&Browse", COMPARE, 405, 40, 80, 25, 0 ), Compare = create( PushButton, "&Compare", COMPARE, 405, 75, 80, 25, 0 ), StatusBar5 = create( StatusBar, "No button pressed yet", COMPARE, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ) procedure onclickBrowse() setText(StatusBar5, "Browse button pressed") end procedure onClick[Browse]=routine_id("onclickBrowse") procedure onclickCompare() setText(StatusBar5, "Compare button pressed") end procedure onClick[Compare]=routine_id("onclickCompare") WinMain(COMPARE,Normal) Yours, even more confused than ever, Pete
5. Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Mar 22, 2002
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On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:27:01 +0000, Chris Bensler <bensler at mail.com> wrote: > >Why does the accelerator activate the onClick event? When I found it didn't I assumed it was by design. I studied some other code, couldn't see why, gave up & posted a query. >I tried your example Pete, and it works fine. HELLS BELLS. I thought it was bad enuf when Dan's code worked and mine didn't. As a sanity check I just searched the source code of the interpreter and couldn't find the line "if Code_Written_By==Pete_Lomax & Person_Running_Code==Pete_Lomax" If it is some setting on my PC why does Dan's code work, not mine? <HEAD BUTTS WALL> ouch </HEAD BUTTS WALL> Pete (seriously losing the plot now)
6. Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Mar 22, 2002
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----- Original Message ----- From: <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Subject: Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 18:27:01 +0000, Chris Bensler <bensler at mail.com> wrote: > >Why does the accelerator activate the onClick event? When I found it didn't I assumed it was by design. I studied some other code, couldn't see why, gave up & posted a query. >I tried your example Pete, and it works fine. HELLS BELLS. I thought it was bad enuf when Dan's code worked and mine didn't. As a sanity check I just searched the source code of the interpreter and couldn't find the line "if Code_Written_By==Pete_Lomax & Person_Running_Code==Pete_Lomax" If it is some setting on my PC why does Dan's code work, not mine? <HEAD BUTTS WALL> ouch </HEAD BUTTS WALL> Pete (seriously losing the plot now) ---------- I dunno Pete. Neither yours nor Dan's worked on mine until I repaired the library. ---- Derek.
7. Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Mar 22, 2002
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Bensler" <bensler at mail.com> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Subject: RE: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc > > Why does the accelerator activate the onClick event? > Because this is Window convention. The Alt-<x> for button-type controls is supposed to set focus to it, and invoke the click event. > I tried your example Pete, and it works fine. > ALT-B = "Browse button pressed" > ALT-C = "Compare button pressed" > > Although, windows chimes when I press ALT-key, and the buttons aren't > depressed when ALT-key is pressed. Maybe you are using a corrected version of the library already. ----------- Derek.
8. Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Mar 22, 2002
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Pete, Your example works fine for me, pressing <alt> b or c give the associated message in status bar; bell dings with <alt><either> but not with click on button, and the "dotted" frame inside the button changes to whichever associated key was pressed but does not depress. I'm running with Win32Lib 55x1. I doubt this is the cause of the difference between how these examples are working for different people, but I have my system set up to run programs when *single* clicked, instead of double-clicked. :) Dan ----- Original Message ----- From: <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 9:53 AM Subject: Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:56:42 -0800, Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> wrote: >This example works fine for me, with NO onKey events specified: Thanks, your example worked fine for me, but my code just don't I have studied it & studied it till I'm blue in the face and I just can't for the life of me see the difference between that & this: include win32lib.ew constant COMPARE = create( Window, "Compare", 0, 100, 100, 500, 180, 0), Browse = create( PushButton, "&Browse", COMPARE, 405, 40, 80, 25, 0 ), Compare = create( PushButton, "&Compare", COMPARE, 405, 75, 80, 25, 0 ), StatusBar5 = create( StatusBar, "No button pressed yet", COMPARE, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ) procedure onclickBrowse() setText(StatusBar5, "Browse button pressed") end procedure onClick[Browse]=routine_id("onclickBrowse") procedure onclickCompare() setText(StatusBar5, "Compare button pressed") end procedure onClick[Compare]=routine_id("onclickCompare") WinMain(COMPARE,Normal) Yours, even more confused than ever, Pete
9. Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Mar 22, 2002
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Bensler" <bensler at mail.com> To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> Subject: RE: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc > > > Derek Parnell wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chris Bensler" <bensler at mail.com> > > To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com> > > Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 5:27 AM > > Subject: RE: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc > > > > Maybe you are using a corrected version of the library already. > > > > ----------- > > Derek. > > Maybe you're using a modified version? :) > > Chris > LOL. Yes the joke's on me. I am using a different version. In the one I'm using, I had added the test for WM_KEYDOWN to get around another bug, but by doing so I introduced a new one. Thanks, Chris. ---------- Derek.
10. Re: Can I just confirm Alt handling etc
- Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Mar 23, 2002
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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 16:31:15 +1100, Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> wrote: >LOL. Yes the joke's on me. I am using a different version. In the one I'm >using, I had added the test for WM_KEYDOWN to get around another bug, but by >doing so I introduced a new one. > Same here. Thanks, it all works now. Pete