Vince, This does indeed seem to be at the Heart of the Problem. I noticed as I was experimenting - that it DOES seem to be that the screen does NOT properly have the Focus. Just now - in doing another test - again - the TextBox does not have the focus after I ran the EXE. And, once I clicked on the Top Bar of the Screen/Window - the cursor Immediately appears within that Text Box.
I even tried your suggestion of putting "Always on Top" to True for the Form, but alas - the problem still persists. Although, for my case - shall I say that "Failure is Not an Option" - and I DEFINITELY have to get this problem sorted out! :-( But - I definitely appreciate your feedback and Input! -K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vincent Teachout Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 12:31 PM Kurt Wendt wrote: > I am working on this small Utility/Project for one of our clients - > which will be used at a Warehouse. Almost ALL user interactions will be > done via a BarCode scanner. They will be scanning UCC barcodes on boxes > - and then the UPC barcodes for the contents within the boxes. > > > > A strange problem I am having is with the Focus. There will be just this > one Text box on the screen (where the user interactivity will occur) - > which must always receive the focus - so that the scanned codes will > automatically get inserted into this Text box. Just a thought, because this has happened to me. Is it possible that when it's run on your buddie's machine, that it is the SCREEN that is not getting focus? I have this same problem with one of my programs. It opens full screen, and focus is supposed to go to first textbox. However, even though you can see the screen (it is window size max, so blocks all else) focus is ACTUALLY retained by whatever program was running when the program started. You start typing to log in, and realize that nothing is typing on the screen. Clicking the screen once sets focus properly, and it goes from there. I've never bothered to fix this particular program (it's on a "someday when I have time" list) because it doesn't really bother anyone, but I would probably start by putting always on top to true. Just an idea. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a14071a2...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** 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.
