If your dialog has even one EditText control that is enabled, MapInfo will
select one of those to be the active control. You have no choice.
However, it's possible to work around this limitation by specifying all of
the EditText controls with Disable. In that case, the first of the
non-disabled controls in the dialog will be the active one. If you want an
EditText to be enabled when the dialog appears, you can enable it in the
dialog handler; this will not affect which control is active (that is,
unless you use the "Active" clause of Alter Control).
In the following code, the RadioGroup will be the active control, since it
is the first control that appears in the dialog which is active by default.
Notice the "position" clauses, which make the radio group appear further
down in the dialog.
' compiled with MB8.5 / run with MI 8.5
declare sub main
declare sub setupdlg
sub main
dialog title "Test"
calling setupdlg
control StaticText title "Edit:" position 4, 6
control EditText value "edit text" ID 1 disable
position 30, 4
control StaticText title "Radio:" position 4, 38
control RadioGRoup title "first option;second option;third option"
position 30, 36
control StaticText title "Popup:" position 4, 22
control PopupMenu title "first option;second option;third option"
position 30, 20
control OKButton title "OK"
control CancelButton title "Done"
end sub
sub setupdlg
alter control 1 enable
end sub
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Goodall
Sent: Monday, August 21, 2006 1:31 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [MI-L] Set Focus on PopupMenu Control in a Dialog
I have a Dialog that contains several types of controls (StaticText,
PopupMenu, EditText, RadioGroup and Buttons) and I would like to specify
which control has the initial focus when the Dialog displays.
Currently when the Dialog displays, the focus is placed on the first
EditText control. I want the focus to be placed on a PopupMenu control
instead.
The Controls are defined in the following order
StaticText
PopupMenu
EditText
So I would think that the PopupMenu would be get the initial focus according
to the Help information below.
Greg Goodall
Data Management Marketing
Project Manager / Senior Systems Analyst
321-725-8081
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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