HtmlEditor : Phorum 5
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Setting Focus back to the editor
Date: Wednesday, 07-May-2003, 16:13:33
Hi,
After selecting a value in a comboxbox I would like to set the focus back to the editor, so that the user could keep on writing without having to select the editor (eg. by clicking on it with the mouse). But
Me.htmleditor1.Focus()
doesn´t seem to work. Maybe it only sets focus to the control and not to the editing area...
Thanks in advance
After selecting a value in a comboxbox I would like to set the focus back to the editor, so that the user could keep on writing without having to select the editor (eg. by clicking on it with the mouse). But
Me.htmleditor1.Focus()
doesn´t seem to work. Maybe it only sets focus to the control and not to the editing area...
Thanks in advance
Re: Setting Focus back to the editor
Posted by: James Hancock (---.darwinconsulting.com)
Date: Wednesday, 07-May-2003, 18:30:37
This is a larger issue because if you use the tab key to tab into the control you can't start typing, although the focus appears to be on the control from the WndProc messages that I'm seeing.
Tim do you have an ideas? I was about to ask you about this one.
Tim do you have an ideas? I was about to ask you about this one.
Re: Setting Focus back to the editor
Posted by: Tim Anderson (---.server.ntl.com)
Date: Thursday, 08-May-2003, 06:58:00
I think we could hack this by forwarding the focus to the mshtml window - we know its hwnd.
Tim
Tim
Re: Setting Focus back to the editor
Date: Thursday, 08-May-2003, 14:38:06
I guess it's not htmleditor1.Handle... that returns the handle of the control were the editor is located. So how can I find the handle to the mshtml window and how to set the focus?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
Re: Setting Focus back to the editor
Posted by: James Hancock (---.darwinconsulting.com)
Date: Thursday, 08-May-2003, 16:17:52
I tried forwarding these messages from the WndProc and it got the focus, but the cursor didn't show up and you couldn't type even though the right wndproc was receiving messages for keypresses etc....
Any other ideas?
Any other ideas?
Re: Setting Focus back to the editor
Date: Thursday, 08-May-2003, 16:27:28
Got it again...
htmleditor1.document.focus() sets the focus back to the editing area.
htmleditor1.document.focus() sets the focus back to the editing area.
Re: Setting Focus back to the editor
Posted by: James Hancock (---.darwinconsulting.com)
Date: Thursday, 08-May-2003, 17:44:11
This sort of works.... however if you tab into the control this doesn't set the cursor correctly so that you can't type.
What I've done is override on the OnEnter event and put the code from above in it. It makes the editor get the focus, you can get the font size, style etc., but you can't just type.
Anyone have any ideas how to get to the cursor to show?
What I've done is override on the OnEnter event and put the code from above in it. It makes the editor get the focus, you can get the font size, style etc., but you can't just type.
Anyone have any ideas how to get to the cursor to show?