Set focus to a component in a dialogbox

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1

Hi,

I was wondering if anybody could help me with this.
I need textEditorDesc componet to grab keyboard focus when the dialogbox(modal) is activated, please see the code below.

How can I do it?

Thank you.

void cRefTypeTable::EditTypeDialog( ULONG item)
	{
		cEditRefItem editTypeDialogPane(item, m_pConn);

		editTypeDialogPane.grabKeyboardFocus();

		int i = DialogWindow::showModalDialog(T("Edit Item!"),&editTypeDialogPane,this,Colours::azure,true);

		if(!i)
			return;

		RecordSetRefresh();
		repaint();

		return;
	}

and this is the construcrtor of cEditRefItem:

[code]
cEditRefItem::cEditRefItem (ULONG item, _ConnectionPtr& pConn)
: m_pConn(pConn),
textEditorDesc (0),
label14 (0),

{

addAndMakeVisible (textEditorDesc = new TextEditor (T("new text editor")));
textEditorDesc->setExplicitFocusOrder (1);
textEditorDesc->setMultiLine (false);
textEditorDesc->setReturnKeyStartsNewLine (false);
textEditorDesc->setReadOnly (false);
textEditorDesc->setScrollbarsShown (true);
textEditorDesc->setCaretVisible (true);
textEditorDesc->setPopupMenuEnabled (true);
textEditorDesc->setColour (TextEditor::textColourId, Colours::red);
textEditorDesc->setText (String::empty);

addAndMakeVisible (label14 = new Label (T("new label"),
                                        T("Credit/Debit")));
label14->setFont (juce::Font (15.0000f, juce::Font::plain));
label14->setJustificationType (Justification::centredLeft);
label14->setEditable (false, false, false);
label14->setColour (TextEditor::textColourId, Colours::black);
label14->setColour (TextEditor::backgroundColourId, Colour (0x0));



//[UserPreSize]

//[/UserPreSize]

setSize (660, 400);

//[Constructor] You can add your own custom stuff here..
try{
	TESTHR(m_pRstType.CreateInstance(__uuidof(Recordset)));
}
catch(_com_error &e){
	MessageComError(e);
}

textEditorDesc->grabKeyboardFocus();


//[/Constructor]

}

[/code][/code]

2

Maybe the Component::canModalEventBeSentToComponent method would be useful for you?

3

Hi,

Please help. How do I use it? I’ve already tried everything that I could think of, how do I make a componet in the dialog(i.e. all created in constructor, jucer generated code) grab input when its presented to the user?

thanks

4

Try making the dialog visible before you do the grabFocus call…

5

I’ve tried, please see the code below, is that what you mean?
One more thing, a dialog being modal is there a method that gets called (from DialogWindow::showModalDialog) right after the dialog is presented to the user? so that I could do

textEditorPassword->grabKeyboardFocus();

in it.

i.e. something like calledRightAfterDialogIsMadeVisible()

thank you for your time

void doChangePasswordProc( bool preload_password ) { cChangePasswordDlg dlg(m_pConn, cSessions::Instance().getCurrent().getLoginId(), preload_password ); //dlg.setWantsKeyboardFocus(false); dlg.setVisible(true); dlg.grabKeyboardFocus(); dlg.grabFocus(); //dlg.grabKeyboardFocus(); // dlg.toFront(true); int i = DialogWindow::showModalDialog( T("Change Password"), &dlg, this, Colours::azure, true);

[code]class cChangePasswordDlg : public Component,
public ButtonListener
{
public:
//==============================================================================
cChangePasswordDlg (_ConnectionPtr& pConn, ULONG login_id, bool preload_old_password);
~cChangePasswordDlg();

//==============================================================================
//[UserMethods]     -- You can add your own custom methods in this section.
bool canModalEventBeSentToComponent ( Component *  targetComponent  ){
	return true;
}
void grabFocus(){
	textEditorPassword->grabKeyboardFocus();
}
/* void focusGained (FocusChangeType cause){
	textEditorPassword->grabKeyboardFocus();
}*/
//[/UserMethods][/code]
6

I was wondering, is this normal or am I doing something wrong? when a dialog is created and presented via DialogWindow::showModalDialog and I manualy set focus to a textEditor componet in it (i.e. to enter text), if I try to drag the dialog through its title bar the componet that I’ve been working in (textEditor componet, entering text) loses focus.

7

Hmm, I guess that’s just the top-level dialog component grabbing focus. I should probably tweak it so that it doesn’t do that…

8

[quote=“appugno”]I’ve tried, please see the code below, is that what you mean?
One more thing, a dialog being modal is there a method that gets called (from DialogWindow::showModalDialog) right after the dialog is presented to the user? so that I could do

textEditorPassword->grabKeyboardFocus();

in it.

i.e. something like calledRightAfterDialogIsMadeVisible()

thank you for your time

void doChangePasswordProc( bool preload_password ) { cChangePasswordDlg dlg(m_pConn, cSessions::Instance().getCurrent().getLoginId(), preload_password ); //dlg.setWantsKeyboardFocus(false); dlg.setVisible(true); dlg.grabKeyboardFocus(); dlg.grabFocus(); //dlg.grabKeyboardFocus(); // dlg.toFront(true); int i = DialogWindow::showModalDialog( T("Change Password"), &dlg, this, Colours::azure, true);

[code]class cChangePasswordDlg : public Component,
public ButtonListener
{
public:
//==============================================================================
cChangePasswordDlg (_ConnectionPtr& pConn, ULONG login_id, bool preload_old_password);
~cChangePasswordDlg();

//==============================================================================
//[UserMethods]     -- You can add your own custom methods in this section.
bool canModalEventBeSentToComponent ( Component *  targetComponent  ){
	return true;
}
void grabFocus(){
	textEditorPassword->grabKeyboardFocus();
}
/* void focusGained (FocusChangeType cause){
	textEditorPassword->grabKeyboardFocus();
}*/
//[/UserMethods][/code][/quote]

Have you seen this post?

9

Hmm, I guess that’s just the top-level dialog component grabbing focus. I should probably tweak it so that it doesn’t do that…[/quote]

Thank you!