screwey viewbox results

[madtowng]

Lance Gurd Before I scrap my idea, would you be kind enough to share the focus code that worked ?

[Lance Gurd]

madtowng it was your code adapted to my controlbar and edit box.

var cbObj1={dialog.object}.getControl('CONTROLBAR_9');
cbObj1.focus('Edit2');​

but not in the

if(keypressed===13||keypressed==='Enter'){}

So that it gave me proof of concept

[madtowng]

My wacky idea was to have a button hidden outside the controlbar do the .focus().
Sadly , it failed too.
On the plus side, that trial didn't take a lot of time.

[Lance Gurd]

I had tried that too, failed also

[madtowng]

There's a good chance I'll put a simple UX together. If it fails there too, I'll submit it as a bug.

[madtowng]

New component created (attached) and submitted as a bug.
It was created using

Alpha Anywhere Version (Community Edition): 12
Compiler: Microsoft C Compiler version 1933
Build: 8417
Addins: 5662​

[madtowng]

Turns out it's a timing issue easily resolved with a setTimeout function.
I will post the solution shortly after I get things settled down at the office.

[madtowng]

As promised.
This code works with the component attached in post #36, and includes the explanation from Selwyn.
I've updated my video finder page to include this feature. I love the fact that I don't have to fumble for the
mouse to execute the search.

I know I forget it's not intuitive for everyone.
I update this site weekly to get the most recent videos published to youtube by Alpha Software and Web Dev Simplified.

The Search For would be any portion of the title or video description. The What Channel would be any portion of the channel name.


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var pressed = event.keyCode;
//var cbObj1={dialog.object}.getControl('CONTROLBAR_1');
var cbObj1 = this;

if(pressed===13 || pressed === 'Enter'){
cbObj1.update('edit3var','eb3');
setTimeout(function() { cbObj1.focus('Edit2');},100);
}

// the reason you have to use a setTimeout() is that the edit controls in the controlbar are "special".
// they are only created when the item gets focus and you need to allow time for the edit control to be instantiated.
​

[madtowng]

Aided by Sarah Mitchell and Dion McCormick answering my complicated viewbox question during yesterday's weekly webinar, I was
able to rework my search feature. It's more involved than using the star commands, but it has the advantage of using two search terms
to filter a viewbox. Another big benefit is that unlike my site that searches youtube for the Alpha Software and returns just the videos you
want, I no longer need to populate a hidden text control (I bill be updating the video finder site soon).
I'm posting my javascript search code as an image because I think it looks better in color.
Special thanks to my javascript expert and online friend that helped be figure what was causing the code to fail.
More coming as I make progress.

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[madtowng]

I have a controlbar with 2 edit items.
I want to use this to get search values while the user is in one of
several control panels.
Is there a way to progamatically change the watermark text?

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