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[questions] focus to a control + default submit button by cooldude_i06 on 06-27-2006 at 03:16 AM

I have two questions:

1. Is there a way (perhaps using the windows API) to give a particular control focus. I want a certain EditControl to have the cursor after a window loads.

2. Is there a way to have it so that if you press enter when a window has focus, that a default submit button is automatically pressed, kind of like a submit button on a form.

Thanks
CD

RE: [questions] focus to a control + default submit button by matty on 06-27-2006 at 03:54 AM

code:
     /*
          Create the Window
     */

          var Wnd = MsgPlus.CreateWnd('xmlfile.xml', 'WindowId');

     /*
          Click Default Button
     */
          Wnd.SendControlMessage('sControlId', 256 , 32, 0); // WM_KEYDOWN = 256
          Wnd.SendControlMessage('sControlId', 257 , 32, 0); // WM_KEYUP = 257
RE: [questions] focus to a control + default submit button by cooldude_i06 on 06-27-2006 at 06:43 AM

To give an editcontrol focus by default I had to use

code:
Wnd.SendControlMessage('sControlId', 513, 0, 0); //WM_LBUTTONDOWN = 513
Wnd.SendControlMessage('sControlId', 514, 0, 0); //WM_LBUTTONUP = 514

But, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. As for making a default button, so that if a user presses enter after typing stuff in an editcontrol, it clicks the button, "sendControlMessage" can be used to click the button. But I am still stumped on how to detect if the user has pressed enter...

Thanks
CD
RE: [questions] focus to a control + default submit button by Eljay on 06-27-2006 at 07:25 AM

1:

code:
//7 = WM_SETFOCUS
PlusWnd.SendControlMessage('ControlId', 7, 0, 0);

2:
code:
<Control xsi:type="ButtonControl" Id="BtnCancel">
    <Position Top="0" Width="50" Left="0"/>
    <Caption>&amp;Cancel</Caption>
    //Make this button that is clicked when user presses Enter key
    <Attributes><IsDefault>true</IsDefault></Attributes>
</Control>
RE: [questions] focus to a control + default submit button by cooldude_i06 on 06-27-2006 at 08:21 AM

Thank you Eljay for solution #2, that was exactly what I needed. :)

As for #1, WM_SETFOCUS gave me a very weird result. The cursor did move to the specified EditControl, but when I typed something, it appeared in the default (first) EditControl and the cursor in the specified EditControl also moved to the left. It gives a wierd result. Anyways, WM_LBUTTONDOWN and WM_LBUTTONUP gave me the result I wanted.

Thanks guys for helping me out.