[Solved} Print Dialog Stealing focus

[l3ill]

Hi All, Is there a way to force a window to stay activated during a popup event like a print dialog for instance? The script works fine most of the time with the normal winact ,winwaitact & sleeps but in the event that the default printer is out of paper or ink or whatever I have send's going to the print dialog instead of the pdf fields where they belong. Thanks for any help...

Edited April 11, 2010 by billo

[martin]

Hi All,

Is there a way to force a window to stay activated during a popup event like a print dialog for instance?

The script works fine most of the time with the normal winact ,winwaitact & sleeps but in the event that the default printer is out of paper or ink or whatever I have send's going to the print dialog instead of the pdf fields where they belong.

Thanks for any help...

You could use ControlSend instead of Send then you can direct the text to the correct window.

Also, you could detect when the dialogue pops up and deal with it some way.

[l3ill]

thanks Martin,

I had played with the idea of control send but as soon as the user clicks the cancel button on the print popup...well you know.

What kind of ideas do you have on detecting the "focus thief" and then pausing the script (function) until focus is returned ?

The script is a list of hotkeys tied to functions that fill in a barrage of pdf forms one at a time and then prints and closes them before opening another one to continue.

I can stop the danger of clicking around by the user with "blockinput" but this little problem is proving to be an annoying little bug.

Thanks again for all your help!

Edited April 11, 2010 by billo

[Ascend4nt]

Maybe try the function SendKeepActive? I haven't tested it myself, but it looks like it might help here.

[l3ill]

Nice find ascendant. hadn't seen that before, certainly sounds like it should work.

But I was just playing with the example and a click away from the window still causes it to drop letters.

Thanks anyway man!

Just finished testing again on my code and it works!!

The example has a second sleep that was allowing it to skip letters.

Rock on Ascend4nt

Edited April 11, 2010 by billo