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Re: child windows not receiving focus events?

• Posted by cklester <cklester at yahoo.com> Jul 12, 2004
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Greg Haberek wrote:
 
> I'm writing an app that needs a child window to receive GotFocus/LostFocus
> events.

Windows (including child windows) can't receive those, if I understand
fully what Derek recently said about this issue.

> The problem is, the child window only receives an initial LostFocus
> event.

Is your app losing focus and you want to know when, or the window
itself?

> I'm using Win32Lib 0.60 and Windows XP Pro. I've attached a small
> example. As you can see when running it, clicking or whatever does not
> trigger a GotFocus on the child window, but clicking the EditText controls
> does trigger the events. I know there's got to be a WS_ or WS_EX_ flag that
> triggers this or something.
> 
> ~Greg

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-=ck
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