Prevent focus on combo

[Champak]

How can I prevent focus on a combo box when a specific gui window in my app is activated? Is there something I can put in the creation of the control or GUI? I only want it to have focus when I actually click on it.

Edited January 10, 2014 by Champak

[michaelslamet]

GUICtrlSetState($hCombo, $GUI_DISABLE)   (??)

[Melba23]

Champak,

Set the focus to another control just before displaying the GUI:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

$cCombo = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 10, 10, 200, 20)
GUICtrlSetData($cCombo, "1|2|3")

$cButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Focus", 10, 100, 80, 30)
; Give focus to the button
GUICtrlSetState($cButton, $GUI_FOCUS)

GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

M23

[Champak]

I'm unable to test any suggestions right now so I'm just asking questions so I can sort this out when I get home.

michaelslamet, if I do that, won't I be unable to use the combo when I actually go to click and use it?

Melba23, that's fin on initial creation of the GUI, but when I go to another app or window and then come back won't the combo box have focus upon activation of the window?

---I'm trying to avoid putting any unnecessary/extra things in the main loop, but if that's the route I have to go, I guess I already know what I have to do.

Thanks

[Melba23]

Champak,

Normally the control that had focus will regain it when the GUI is reactivated - certainly that is the case when I activate/reactivate the GUI created by that script.

You could always test for reactivation and reset the focus to whatever you wanted. That would require some code to detect the reactivation which is not that difficult to write.

M23

[Champak]

Oh, i didnt know it would default to the original focus if i return to that window. Ok, I'll see when I get home, thanks.