Re: win32lib labels with hotkeys
Don't do anything yet! I'll give it some thought and come up with a suitable
'fix' for you. It might take an hour or so.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Lomax" <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: win32lib labels with hotkeys
>
>
> On Tue, 27 May 2003 23:47:32 +1000, Derek Parnell
> <ddparnell at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >I forgot to mention a new feature with win32lib.
> >
> >If you create a label control (LText, RText, CText) and place an '&' in
its
> >caption, then if the next field created is an input field, that input
field
> >has its own hotkey set to the label's hotkey. Thus ...
> >
> > lbl = create(RText, "&Customer:", Win, 5,10, 80, 25, 0)
> > custname = create(EditBox, "", Win, 85, 10, 100, 25, 0)
> >
> >means that when the user presses Alt-C, the cursor jumps to the custname
> >field.
>
> I've just upgraded to 0.58.09. Prior to this mod I had several dummy
> fields eg Zsh=create(LText,"&Z",win,0,0,0,0,0) to capture the Alt-Z,
> and an ongotfocus() routine to handle things manually. There isn't a
> specific control it applies to (it is actually a bitmap of four
> buttons, in a popup window, that I've carefully positioned over the
> titlebar, and I handle the mouse clicks in that region explicitly).
> I'm not surprised (and not upset either) they don't work no more. It's
> not exactly a common programming technique
>
> I think what I need to do is remove the &Z from the definition of Zsh
> and call registerHotKey(Zsh,"&Z"), right?
>
> A similar problem I have is:
> "&Size" ""
> <Slider>
> where there is a text field after the &Size which later gets set with
> "50%", "100%" etc. Which of the following would you recommend:
> 1) a change to win32lib to cope with this (leave vs_PreviousControl as
> is if it already contains a hotkey on a static field & there is no
> hotkey on the current static field)
> 2) just swap the define of my second field up.
> 3) merge the two labels.
> 4) something else
>
> Lastly, this might cause a problem for Judith's IDE. I don't use it so
> I don't know if it puts the fields in the right order. I often do eg
> create(text,x,10,10..)
> create(combo,x,30,7,..)
> to make them line up, so a strict sort on y then x co-ordinates would
> not work,
>
> Pete
> <shrug>
> I don't want to think of how many ongotfocus(ltext) routines I'm going
> to have to find and delete.
> </shrug>
>
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