Paul, As with all VFP objects their visibility is not set until you set them to be visible. This has caught me out a number of times when I thought that the object had not been created correctly so you need to set the .Visible property on in the init. Control the actual on screen visibility via the ShowWindow property of the form and Windowstate property.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: 21 September 2017 14:35 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject Good thinking Tracy Excel does not bring up its UI until you explicitly make it visible. Stopwatch does not have a UI until, after o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch") when you issue o.Start() -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: 21 September 2017 14:31 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject Does Stopwatch bring up a UI and Excel does not? -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject No and no ... -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 14:15 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject Is the Init() in stopwatch.exe waiting for something? Is CreateObjectEx() any different ? -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, at 01:58 PM, Paul Newton wrote: > Hi all > > In the command window if I run the command o = > CreateObject("Excel.Application"), an instance of Excel is created and > focus returns to the command window. > > If I run the command o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch"), an > instance of my stopwatch (in Stopwatch.EXE) is created but focus does > NOT return to the command window. > > Any ideas? TIA > > Paul Newton [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
