[DUG] Odd problem with Tedit

[John Bird]

I have solved it.

Had to do bit by bit testing and deductive reasoning to find the cause:  The bit by bit found nothing but took lots of nice time trying useless things.   The deductive reasoning - this is my oldest program, and was written before I understood clearly the difference between the form onActivate and onShow events.   I had some code in the main form onActivate event that did quite a lot of setups - including showing the second form which in its onActivate event did some further processing.   I am guessing this is to use a technical term "asking for weird stuff" .  Moving all the code to the onShow event in both forms fixed the problem.   Well I think that's what fixed it.

Why did I do it this way with the onActivate event, which fires every time the main form is returned to?   Well no-one ever told me otherwise, so I had already put in code that made it only fire most of the code once ever, effectively it was an onShow event.  And also on the list of events Activate is right at the top and Show is right at the bottom, and I was teaching myself this stuff.

The other mystery which I am not going to try to figure is that for over 6 years it has worked fine, and something minor altered recently has thrown it.  I think it was when I added a combo box to the main form.  Even then most of the time it worked fine, but often would not.   The main symptom was the edit not getting proper focus - go figure!

I remember a saying on the door of one of my Physics lecturers - "This problem - once solved - will be simple"

John

 
Yes I have tried all sorts of things like setting TabStop  to false, and most hopefully setting the control second in the Tab Order list with focus going to another control and then doing a Setfocus to the one I want.   It still does not fix it.   Also been playing with Autoselect and ShowSelect, and IMEMode.   Nothing makes any difference - I am convinced its something in the way the program is built

Is there a way to programatically set the focus more than what Setfocus does?

John

Hi John,

Have you tried to set the tab order to 1 (or 0 - can't remember which is the "accepted" first) for this control ?

Cheers,

Pieter

On 10/06/2010 21:20, John Bird wrote: 
  This one has me foxed.   I have a standard unit which is a form dialog at the start of many programs - which gets an access code and a password.

  In one program only it misbehaves - the Tedit fields never seem to get focus properly, so although the users can type text, there is no cursor and the onexit event of the TEdit does not fire.   Also default text in the Tedit does not show as selected.   Subsequent returns to this and other edit boxes do behave properly.

  This is Delphi 2007 - problem shows for this program on Windows 7 and XP.  XP Manifest is in use.  Very little processing before this dialog form is shown...

  Note I have already done code like Edit1.Setfocus   -- it does not fix the problem.

  Anyone have any ideas???   Normal build and compile all and deleting all dcus has not fixed it.

  Also is there any way to force a Tedit to have its text selected.   

  John

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