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

• Posted by Rangi <totorangi at hotmail.com> Oct 08, 2003
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Louis
Never had a problem with setFocus when used within a w32HActivate 
routine.  However, I have often used it followed by a setIndex in order 
to position the cursor at some point within the editText field or to 
select all the text in a prefilled field. 

You could try that..... Rangi

Louis at cwshop.com wrote:
> 
> 
> OK, Thanks.  I tried it and
> WinMain( {firstwindow, focuscontrol}, Normal )
> Does exactly the same thing as setFocus(focuscontrol).
> Oh well.
> 
> Wishlist items:
> Add a line to Win32Lib:
> global constant 	WS_NO_RESIZE = {WS_CAPTION,WS_SYSMENU}
> 
> And, as time permits, add a short comment to constants like this in the 
> source that describes what they do, in lieu of documentation.  Then I 
> could browse (and search) Win32Lib source to find the flags that I need, 
> since they are not listed in the main documentation.  Even mentioning in 
> the documentation where constants starting with "WS_" (and other 
> prefixes too) are used would be of some help.  For example, in the 
> documentation for "create()", you could mention that the names for flag 
> constants start with "WS_" and for createEx() you could say what the 
> prefix for exFlags constants are.
> 
> Louis.
> 
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> 
> On 10/8/2003 at 2:14 PM Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <Louis at cwshop.com>
> >To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
> >Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 8:47 AM
> >Subject: How can I make a field ready to receive typing?
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >Try this ...
> >
> >  WinMain( {firstwindow, focuscontrol}, Normal)
> <snip>
> 
>