OpenEuphoria

Re: How can I make a field ready to receive typing?

• Posted by George Walters <gwalters at sc.rr.com> Oct 08, 2003
• 439 views

I've also had this (and still do) problem on edit text boxes, but haven't
figured out a simple program to expose it. Will keep trying.

So we must have a boogen somewhere.

george
----- Original Message -----
From: <Louis at cwshop.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: How can I make a field ready to receive typing?


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> My windows are working fine.  However, when the input window opens, the
cursor is nowhere to be seen.  I must either click on the input field or hit
TAB to produce a cursor so that I can type in the field.
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> As someone suggested, I tried SetFocus() to that field in a procedure that
is triggered by w32HActivate of that window.  When I do that, I still have
no cursor and cannot type.  However, pressing TAB causes the highlight to
appear at the next thing AFTER the input field, so I know that the cursor
was on the input field, it just wasn't enabled for some reason.  One example
(childwin.exw) does achieve a field open for input, but they used onXXX,
which is not compatible with the setHandler style I am using.
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> I have found the Win32 SDK documentation in msdn.microsoft.com, but am
having trouble relating it to Euphoria.  I know how to write programs, but I
am a beginner at Windows Programming.
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> Is there a Euphoria routine that invokes "SendInput"?  If so, I could use
it to send a TAB right after the window opened (instead of using SetFocus)
which would open the desired field for input, though I don't particularly
like this approach because it could interact with the keyboard and cause
unexpected results.
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> I learned an incredible thing while examining examples.  If I create a
window with flags set to {WS_CAPTION,WS_SYSMENU}, the window becomes
unresizable.  This is a property I wanted, but I have no idea why it works.
Can you imagine how frustrated I would be if I tried to learn how to do this
by manually searching the the Windows SDK?  (No computer search is possible,
as it is in a number of separate pages, and Microsoft's search engine
doesn't help.)
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> HELP!
>
> Thanks,
> Louis.
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