Set Focus on startup

[Peter.Greulich]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Tom,

Maybe it's time you buy your mouse a cup of coffee, eh?

[CALocklin]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Bill,

I haven't seen the issue with putting the form in Enter mode but then the first thing I bring up (in customer apps anyway) is usually a menu form that has the Enter, Change, and most other (all?) options turned off.

Cal

[csda1]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Tom,

Another thing to try is


objectname.activate()
form.next()
form.prev()
objectname.refresh()


I don't use Win98SE much. Wonder why? :?)

Regards,

Ira J. Perlow
Computer Systems Design & Associates
[email protected]

[Tom Cone Jr]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Nope. Same behavior. What we really need it seems is a way to move the cursor in xbasic, without moving the mouse itself.

-- tom

[martinwcole]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Tom, Bill Parker and I were talking about this issue and decided it has to do with which version of the operating sys you're using. But I just tried the sys_keys_esc at onint for my master menu, and it works great - I'm glad you brought this up!!!

[Ken L Herrold]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Thanks to All..

From a prior discussion on the board about bringing any kind of focus to Alpha in cold start, I've been sending ALT-TAB - that activated it just fine but if there was something else lying on the task bar in would come up in front of it. The 'send keys "{ESC}" works just fine on INIT for the startup form.

Tom Cone wrote...."What we really need it seems is a way to move the cursor in xbasic, without moving the mouse itself...."

Tom, I wouldn't have blamed you if you poo-pooed my email to you on the 'Show last 10 records' thread. "moving the cursor in Xbasic was what I was looking for - send keys {PGDN} did the trick but I, too, was looking for a way to "move .... the cursor..." without them.

Thanks to all for help.

Ken the Newbie

[Tom]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Tom, you might try this in the oninit:

objectZ.activate()
objectZ.push()

Where the objectZ button does nothing but give focus to the button you want active. Works for me.

[Jim Rowlen]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Mr. Cole:

It sounds as if you might be accusing the Microsoft Corporation of failing to maintain continuity between their products, even changing things on purpose?

(Ask Selwyn or Cian how much fun they had early with v5 when MS changed how Office did things without telling anyone.)

[martinwcole]

RE: Set Focus on startup

I have talked to other app developers, like Power Quest, and they said there were some "violent twists" in the differences between 98 & ME - so, I'm not surprised. When ME first came out one of my devices wouldn't work, and I had to go back to 98 for a while. But now I am running ME and have had no problems with Alpha - although when it bombs the messages are different. So far it has always been my code!

I hope they don't get discouraged, though, because automated interoperability with Word and Excell are important. I really like that I can with a button for the operator in seconds give them their data in Excell for mail merge, mass mailing companies, etc.

[Cian Chambliss]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Yeah - actually, I ended up writing a replacement for the standard windows edit control because Office added glyphs to many of the most commonly used fonts that messed up the font metric information for the standard windows EDIT control (extra space at the start of the control).

However, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger - having our own 'open' edit control code allowed me to add code colorization to the xbasic and expression editor, add well integrated auto-complete logic, and will allow me to keep enhancing all the text editor (the trace window in version 5.0 now supports embedded icons & background/foreground colors). All this is now possible because I couldn't work-around a bug that office introduced :) ...

[Peter.Greulich]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Well done, as usual.

[Peter.Greulich]

RE: Set Focus on startup

Tom I had the same problem with WIN ME. The following works in ME and puts focus on the Password Object so you don't have to move the mouse (haven't tried SE yet, but I will on Tuesday).

This is the OnActivate event of the form that is auto-loaded by Alpha, and it serves as a Password dialog type form when the database first loads:

Password.activate()
sys_send_keys("{esc}")