Not at all, I was just trying to correct myself; I had the name of your
script wrong.
my issue was that in vista, sometimes, when you alt-tabbed to a windows
explorer window, you would find that the list view of files would not be
the focused control. others mentioned noticing the same annoyance, so I
was trying to correct it with a small script that would focus the list
view immediately after the activation of a windows explorer window.
that's when I ran into some weird issue where the focus command would
not work for me.
I disabled all scripts, then slow re-enabled them one at a time, until
they were all enabled, and it's all working now (I mean I'm able to
focus the list view control now). I haven't a clue as to why it wasn't
working for a while (of course I did reboot several times, and the
problem still existed for me).
I'm just glad it's working now, and I'm sorry Doug and Aaron had to
spend some time working on it needlessly.
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
chip.ora...@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.)
________________________________
From: Kevin Simon Huber [mailto:kevin.hub...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2009 9:41 AM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: Re: example for vista control not focusing problem
Hi Chip:
Did I steal your original name for a script,
"MakePointerFollowCursor"?
I'm sorry about that. (smile)
Kevin Huber
----- Original Message -----
From: Chip Orange <mailto:cora...@psc.state.fl.us>
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:06 PM
Subject: RE: example for vista control not focusing
problem
Well, I meant to call it "make pointer follow cursor",
but it seems to have nothing to do with the issue for me anyway. still,
I cannot get it to fail in my xp.
very interesting.
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
chip.ora...@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service
Commission.)
________________________________
From: Chip Orange
[mailto:cora...@psc.state.fl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 4:02 PM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: RE: example for vista control not
focusing problem
Thanks Jeff, now that really is interesting.
When I ran it here once or twice on my xp
machine it ran ok.
Do you have the "make mouse pointer follow
focus" script running?
Chip
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
chip.ora...@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely those of the
author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public
Service Commission.)
________________________________
From: Jeff Weiss
[mailto:jnwe...@lwsb.org]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 3:12 PM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: RE: example for vista control
not focusing problem
Chip,
I may not have done this just right, but
I tested this code on my xp pro sp3 machine.
I used hotkeys to open three windows
explorer windows.
I got the messages "setting focus to
some other window"
Then I got the message "failed to set
focus to listview control.
This was with my xp machine and we 7.1.
I know you meant this to be tested on
vista machine, but it seems to have failed here also.
Jeff Weiss
________________________________
From: Chip Orange
[mailto:cora...@psc.state.fl.us]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:43 AM
To: gw-scripting@gwmicro.com
Subject: example for vista control not
focusing problem
Hi Doug and Aaron,
I can't test this here where I wrote it,
at least I can but it doesn't fail on xp, but below is an example of a
script which waits for a windows explorer window to be made the active
window, then when it is the script attempts to demonstrate the problem
by setting some other control to be focused, then setting the list view
to have the focus.
thanks.
Chip
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option explicit
' watch for newly activated windows
(looking for Windows Explorer)
connectEvent desktopWindow,
"onChildActivate", "onChildActivate"
sub onChildActivate ( window )
if window is nothing then exit sub
if not window.isValid then exit sub
if strComp ( uCase ( window.moduleName),
"BROWSEUI") <> 0 then exit sub
if strComp ( uCase ( WINDOW.className),
"CABINETWCLASS") <> 0 THEN EXIT SUB
' this is a windows explorer window,
find the list view control
' do so with a slight delay to give the
window time to populate, and to clear this handler routine as soon as
possible
queue "handleWindowsExplorerWindow",
window
end sub
sub HandleWindowsExplorerWindow ( window
)
' search the children of this window,
looking for the list of files, which we want to make the focused control
when we return to this type of window
dim oChild
for each oChild in
window.Children.filterByType(wtListView)
if not window.isValid then exit sub
if not oChild.isValid then exit sub
If oChild.Accessible.State.Focusable
And oChild.Visible And oChild.Enabled then
' this is the list of files in a windows
explorer window
If oChild.Accessible.State.Focused
then setSomethingElseAsFocus ( window )
If not oChild.Accessible.State.Focused
then
speak "setting the focus to the list
view control" ' temporary
oChild.focus
sleep 1000
If not oChild.Accessible.State.Focused
then speak "failed to set the list view as the focus!"
end if
exit sub
end if
next
end sub
sub setSomethingElseAsFocus ( window )
' make some other control than the
listview be the focus
dim oChild
for each oChild in window.Children
if not window.isValid then exit sub
if not oChild.isValid then exit sub
if oChild.type <> wtListView then
' it's not a list view, so see if it can
be focused
If oChild.Accessible.State.Focusable
And oChild.Visible And oChild.Enabled then
' this is focusable
If not oChild.Accessible.State.Focused
then
speak "setting the focus to something
else"
oChild.focus
sleep 1000
If not oChild.Accessible.State.Focused
then speak "failed to set the alternate control as the focus!"
end if
exit sub
end if
end if ' oChild.type <> wtListView
next
end sub
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Chip Orange
Database Administrator
Florida Public Service Commission
chip.ora...@psc.state.fl.us
(850) 413-6314
(Any opinions expressed are solely
those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida
Public Service Commission.)
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