OpenEuphoria

RE: WS_CHILD

• Posted by Jon Snyder <jongsnyder at hotmail.com> Aug 23, 2001
• 432 views

Jonas  Temple wrote:
> 
> Jon Snyder wrote:
> > How come when i create a child window like this,
> > 
> > constant 
> >      WIN = create( Window, "Parent", 0,0,300,300,0),
> >      CHILD = create( Window, "Child", 10,10,100,100, WS_CHILD)
> > 
> > and then open the child window, the child window looks like it isn't 
> > active?(The top bar is gray)  Is there a way to make the window active?
> Jon,
> 
> This might be a hack but after I use openWindow to open a child window I 
> 
> immediately use setFocus to set the focus to the child window.  That 
> seems to do the trick.
> 
> Jonas
> 

Jonas,

I tried using setFocus right after creating it with no luck.  I'm using 
version 0.55.1 of Win32Lib.  What is weird though is that if i maximize 
the child window the top bar will flash the blue color of an active 
window but then go back to gray.  Is this an error in win32lib?

Jon