[RESOLVED] .SetFocus

[abhijit]

Has anyone else experienced this?
I am in debug mode VB6 IDE.

I am running my IDE on Citrix Terminal Server.
There's a command Spread1.SetFocus

For some reason this fails when I am running my code in IDE.

Spread1 is a farpoint spread control.
Can someone please test?

[Siddharth Rout]

What is the operation that you want to perform after setting focus?

Instead of setting focus try this...

With Spread1
'~~> your code to execute the opreation without setting focus...
End With

[abhijit]

What is the operation that you want to perform after setting focus?

Instead of setting focus try this...

With Spread1
'~~> your code to execute the opreation without setting focus...
End With

There's nothing on the GotFocus event of the spread control.

This is legacy code from 1998. I am going to try and remove the setFocus line in this particular form and see how it goes.

[Siddharth Rout]

Does it have an .activate event...

[abhijit]

Does it have an .activate event...

Farpoint Spread control does not have an activate event. Not the version we have in our application.

[Siddharth Rout]

What is the EditMode property of spread1 set to?

Also you can either set the TabIndex to 0 to have the Spread have focus when it is loaded or call the SetFocus method after the Spread control is loaded (Form_Activate event).

[MartinLiss]

Has anyone else experienced this?
I am in debug mode VB6 IDE.

I am running my IDE on Citrix Terminal Server.
There's a command Spread1.SetFocus

For some reason this fails when I am running my code in IDE.

Spread1 is a farpoint spread control.
Can someone please test?

How does it fail? If there's an error message what is it? Is the control visible when you try to SetFocus?

[RhinoBull]

For some reason this fails when I am running my code in IDE.

You are not debugging at the moment when focus has to be set, are you? If you are then that's the reason.

[dee-u]

I am not sure if it will make a difference but have you tried the SetFocus API if it will work?

[abhijit]

You are not debugging at the moment when focus has to be set, are you? If you are then that's the reason.

If that were the case, this code should also fail while I am debugging.

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
    DoEvents
    Text2.SetFocus
End Sub

This form has got two text boxes. If I run it in debug mode, it sets the focus on the second text box.

[abhijit]

How does it fail? If there's an error message what is it? Is the control visible when you try to SetFocus?

The error message is "RunTime Error 5: Invalid procedure call or argument".
I am pretty sure that control is visible, but I need to check this again. The control is on a frame. There are several frames on the form and there is code that hides and un-hides the frames.

[RhinoBull]

The error message is "RunTime Error 5: Invalid procedure call or argument"...

That could only be if:

- control is not visible
- control is disable
- parent container is not visible
- parent container is disable

[Siddharth Rout]

Abhi

Did you see post 6?

[abhijit]

What is the EditMode property of spread1 set to?

Also you can either set the TabIndex to 0 to have the Spread have focus when it is loaded or call the SetFocus method after the Spread control is loaded (Form_Activate event).

Abhi

Did you see post 6?

Sid,
EditMode properties are not checked or set in the control. I believe the cause for the error could be something to do with the way the container controls hide and unhide during a process.

[Siddharth Rout]

Is it loaded when you are trying to set focus?

[abhijit]

Yes it is present on the form, when I invoke it.

[MartinLiss]

Hopefully you aren't trying to set focus on the Form_Load event.

[Pradeep1210]

Does it work ok when you run from complied EXE?

[Siddharth Rout]

Hmmm. one last try...

Set it's EditMode property to true and then try it...

[MartinLiss]

What does your "Kinda Resolved" mean?

[abhijit]

Does it work ok when you run from complied EXE?

Yes it does. However, I cannot completely trust the compiled executable as there are several places in this code where it uses "On Error Resume Next".

What does your "Kinda Resolved" mean?

I suspect the container for that control is getting hidden. I am going to look in this direction. Once I find the suspect, I will return and mark it to "RESOLVED".

[MartinLiss]

Construct a watch that breaks when the container is hidden. Do you need help in doing that?

[abhijit]

Construct a watch that breaks when the container is hidden. Do you need help in doing that?

That worked.