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How to set the ***initial*** focus to an option? [message #6561]

Sat, 18 November 2006 14:29

Werner
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Cologne / Germany

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I have a ParentCtrl and on it, at the top position, an Option. Below that is a Label and an EditField.

When the application starts, the EditField has the focus.

I would like the Option to have the focus, but I don't know how. "SetFocus()" doesn't work in the constructor.

Surprisingly, "SetFocus()" works well, when I move the focus later on ("OnKey()").

How can I set the focus to the (topmost) option, when the application starts?

Werner

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Re: How to set the ***initial*** focus to an option? [message #6562 is a reply to message #6561]

Sat, 18 November 2006 15:01

mirek
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Registered: November 2005

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Only widgets visible on the screen can have focus (therefore setting it in the constructor cannot work).

However, each TopWindow remembers the "focused child" and when it gets activated, places (restores) actual focus to it. Note that the main purpose of this is to maintain the expexted user experience.

You can change this "focused child" by calling TopWindow's ActiveFocus with child as parameter. If TopWindows is active ("foreground"), child gets focus immediately, otherwise it gets in once TopWindow gets active.

Short answer: Use ActiveFocus Wink

Mirek

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Re: How to set the ***initial*** focus to an option? [message #6564 is a reply to message #6562]

Sat, 18 November 2006 15:18

Werner
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Cologne / Germany

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luzr wrote on Sat, 18 November 2006 15:01

...

Short answer: Use ActiveFocus Wink

Mirek

My "work paradigm" forces me, at first to dig instead of to ask. Confused

I shouldn't ... Rolling Eyes

Thank you.

Werner

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Re: How to set the ***initial*** focus to an option? [message #6572 is a reply to message #6564]

Sun, 19 November 2006 10:06

fallingdutch
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Registered: July 2006

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Hello Werner,
if you use the Layout Editor just change the order of the Ctrls - the topmost Control with the value want's focus gets it at first and the next in the list is selected when pressing tab

Bas

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Re: How to set the ***initial*** focus to an option? [message #6573 is a reply to message #6572]

Sun, 19 November 2006 11:36

Werner
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Cologne / Germany

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Thanks.

I'm working on quite a complicated UPT where using the layout editor is not appropriate. But Mirek's answer "Use ActiveFocus" already solved the problem (refer to message #6562).

Werner

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