It's quite easy...
frm = FrmInitForm();
FrmSetFocus();
FrmDoDialog();
This is in the Palm OS KB at http://www.synsolutions.com/developers/
Good luck,
Alan Pinstein
Synergy Solutions, Inc.
http://www.synsolutions.com
1-800-210-5293
>Okay, I tried the FrmSetActive() call, but to no avail. It turns out the
>blinky vanishes when I do a FldDeleteField and FldEraseField. For now, I
>can live with my workaround. Thanks for the info though.
>
>Michael Yam
>Y Technology, Inc.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Thursday, March 18, 1999 12:55 PM
>Subject: Re: Bug? FrmSetFocus() does not turn on insertion point
>
>
>Michael Yam wrote:
>> Is there a way to turn on an insertion point? My workaround is to set
>> the focus to another field, then set it back to the field I really
>> want.
>
>Maybe this will help. I had a similar problem yesterday, where the
>blinky vanished after dismissing a modal dialog. No amount of plausible
>FldXxx or FrmXxx calls would make it appear.
>
>Finally found the problem was that I wasn't calling FrmSetActiveForm
>when calling FrmDoDialog to pop up the modal dialog. The fix:
>
> FormPtr dialog = FrmInitForm( dialogID );
> FormPtr parent = FrmGetActiveForm(); // ADDED THIS LINE
> FrmSetActiveForm( dialog ); // ADDED THIS LINE
> FrmDoDialog( dialog );
> FrmSetActiveForm( parent ); // ADDED THIS LINE
> FrmDeleteForm( dialog );
>
>Without those FrmSetActiveForm calls, everything worked fine except for
>the blinky disappearing in the parent form. This fixed it.
>
>-slj-
