Hi everyone, Let me rephrase my original question (as I know I tend to get verbose): is it at all possible to change the focus of a non-modal dialog (a UnoControlDialog) using the API? And if not, maybe there is some way of simulating user input to get the same effect?
Any suggestions welcome :) Zbigniew Banach > More dialog problems from me, I'm afraid. A quick and (hopefully) easy > question today. I've created and displayed a non-modal dialog in the > standard way: > > smgr = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getComponentContext().ServiceManager > ctx = XSCRIPTCONTEXT.getComponentContext() > dialogModel = smgr.createInstance( > "com.sun.star.awt.UnoControlDialogModel") > controlContainer = smgr.createInstance( > "com.sun.star.awt.UnoControlDialog") > controlContainer.setModel(dialogModel) > toolkit = smgr.createInstanceWithContext( > "com.sun.star.awt.Toolkit", ctx) > controlContainer.createPeer(toolkit, None) > controlContainer.setVisible(True) > > (BTW, I've found that, strangely enough, the setVisible() call is not > necessary to display the dialog -- createPeer() already does that). > > What I want is to display the dialog from Writer and immediately restore > focus to the document, so the user can keep typing and use the info in > the dialog for reference (it's a glossary, FTW) without having to click > the document or Alt+Tab to it. But after creation, the dialog is > focussed and I can't find a way to shift focus back to the main document > window. I've been examining the frame/window properties and even when > the dialog is focussed, the document frame is still reported as the top > and active frame, and no combination of setFocus(), toFront(), toBack() > etc on the dialog or the document window seems to do the trick. > > I hope I'm just missing something trivial here, and I'd greatly > appreciate a pointer in the right direction. > > Cheers, > > Zbigniew Banach --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
