Re: Edit text fields in child windows
CChris wrote:
>
> Chris McConnell wrote:
> >
> > I am a new user of Euphoria and I have tried to use child windows.
> >
> > Has anyone come up with a solution to the problem where selecting a text
> > edit
> > field in a child window with a mouse will not cause the field to become in
> > focus.
> > I see in the forum where other programmers have had the issue but I did not
> > find a fix.
> >
> > I can set tab stops and advance through the text edit fields but I have not
> > been able to select a field in a child window with a mouse click.
> >
> > TIA
>
>
> I tried various things, and came up with the following:
> 1/ the window procedure associated to a window with the WS_CHILD flag
> doesn't send the right messages to an edit field when the latter gets mouse
> clicks (and it actually gets them). Edit fields are supposed to appear in
> top level windows or in dialog boxes.
>
> 2/ Edit fields are antiquated components that existed before win 3.0. This
> may explain 1/, and why 1/ doesn't have an easy fix.
>
> 3/ But after all, RichEdit controls are more recent and don't depend so much
> on the parent, so use RichEdit instead of EditText in child windows.
>
> 4/ But you'll have to create them with the right styles, and using findText()
> will fail on NT based systems (will be fixed in the next version of win32lib).
> Does the code in <a
> href="http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/m13681.htm">http://www.listfilter.com/EUforum/m13681.htm</a>
> help? See if it works for you.
>
> CChris
So RichEdit it is in a child window.
Thank you for the speedy response.
Chris
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