Thanks so much Doug; sorry I had you chasing some other issue than the one I meant to raise.
I will start looking for reasons why it's just my pc, starting with the scripts as you say. I'll get back when there's news, and after some minor surgery tomorrow, which hopefully will just give me more time at home to work on this! Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission [email protected] (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Doug Geoffray [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 10:31 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: example for vista control not focusing problem > > Chip, > > Okay I've jumped through all your hoops and still can't find > a problem. > > 1) I loaded Homer and I loaded the Focus control script. I'm > in Windows > Vista SP3 (32-bit). I bring up Windows Explorer. I tab to > the treeview > and press insert-f9. I get a dialog with a listbox.with 27 items but > only one listview. I get on the listview item and hit enter > and poof, > the listivew gets focus and the items reads as it should. > > 2) I loaded your first test program and already reported the > successful > results from that. > > 3) I loaded your second test program and when I activate the Windows > Explorer with the listview already in focus I hear: > > setting the focus to something else > search edit box > setting the focus to the listview control > blah where blah is the listview item. > > If I activate Windows Explorer with the listview not in focus I hear: > > setting the focus to the listview control > blah where blah is the listview item > > So in all three hoops I got exactly what I should so my bet > is you have > some other control that is running causing problems. For > example when I > first did the test with Jamal's Focus control script I forgot > to disable > your test script and of course that caused problems. But when I > disabled your test script then Focus control worked perfectly. > > Since Aaron has tried this on two machines and I have beaten up this > Vista machine with several different tests and neither of us > can get it > to fail I think it points to something unique on your system > and others > as well and as I mentioned, I'm betting on other scripts fighting. I > suggest turning off all scripts except the one you are testing and > obviously the scripts they may be dependent on. > > Regards, > Doug > > > Chip Orange wrote: > > Doug, > > > > Yes, I think I've done this several times, but I appreciate > your help, and I > > don't mind doing it again. > > > > yes, it's the list view which Jeff and I cannot set focus > to. yes, it's the > > list view I want. yes, I've verified there is only one > list view in a > > windows explorer window, and it's the one I want, the list of files. > > > > aside from my script, you can see this issue by doing what > I laid out before > > using Jamal's focus control script. > > > > go to a windows explorer window. set the focus to be any > control other than > > the list view. press the ins-f9 hot key for focus control > script. it will > > bring up a list of focusable controls in the active window. > > > > when I choose the list view from this list, I get an error, > which replicates > > the error I am getting from my own "real" script, and from > the "test" > > example script. > > > > all of these scripts are unable to set the focus to the > list view control. > > > > in my example script I needed to move focus away from the > list view, so I > > could show a failure setting focus back to it. I simply > did not understand > > what you did when you ran with that and said it was the > problem; I think you > > said I could not just choose any control; it might not work? > > > > so, I'm suggesting you do this part manually with my script > by commenting > > out the line which calls "setfocustosomethingelse", and > manually choosing > > some other control in the windows explorer window, > alt-tabbing away, and > > alt-tabbing back to the windows explorer window. > > > > my test script will then try to set the list view control > focus, and for me, > > will fail. > > > > Does this help? > > > > thanks again, > > > > Chip > > > > > > -- > Doug Geoffray > GW Micro, Inc. > Voice 260-489-3671 > Fax 260-489-2608 > http://www.gwmicro.com > >
