Message box causing problems.

[GKFC]

I have an executable that every now and again pops a dialog box up prompting the user to click either "yes" or "no".

This is all well and good, but some of the scenes in the executable have a form on them for users to e.g. put their name etc on.

If the dialog box is prompted above this form, the focus is taken away from the form, and onto the dialog box.

This presents a problem in that if the user clicks "no" and returns back to the form, the focus remains away on the dialog box, and thus the user has to click somewhere on the form to return back to it. Which is not desirable.

I've tried putting code so that every time a response is received from the dialog box, it will try and re-activate the form so that the user doesn't have to physically click it to enter text again.

something like e.g.

if (reply) {
MainWindow = getMainWnd();
MainWindow.show();
MainWindow.enable = true;
MainWindow.bringToTop();
}

None of those seem to work....

Any ideas on how to return the focus back to the form?

Sorry if this all seems a bit confusing....

[meester]

I think we might have experienced the same problem

Re:Selection.setFocus for FLASH APPEARS DISABLED
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2003, 07:07:54 PM »

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It's really a bug. The same bug like this is the Shell.runAndWait method. When the method returns, the projector lost focus.

It has already been fixed in our new version that is still under testing.

Earlier, the swfkit-team has developed a special version of the projector that fixed that problem for me.
If you want it (before the new version comes out), I can look it up and mail it to you.
Let me know

Cheers
meester

Let me know

[GKFC]

Thanks Meester.

Probably the safest way is me to email the support guys.

I've already had a couple of updates from them, and the last thing I need to do is install a patch that wipes out those changes.

Good to know it can be fixed though, I will email them now.

Thanks for your help,

G.

[SWFKit]

Hi, sorry

This is another focus bug other than the one met by meester. It can be fixed by a Windows call, while the dll calling functions were not opened in SWFKit 1.1, we have to make an ActiveX object for you.

Please check mail.