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forcing focus to editor window when application gets focus (on ALT-TAB)

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jcelle:
Hello there,
Since ever I am facing a strange behavior with VSE.
9 times out of 10 when I try to activate VSE using Alt-Tab I end up on VSE window that does not have completely the focus:
VSE behaves as if the Alt key had been pressed.
- The cursor shape is a full block and I can move it around using arrow keys
- Pressing any character key is captured by the menu hotkeys (eg if I press F I get the File menu dropping down).
I have to press ESC to force the focus back.
Note that I am using VistaSwitcher as Alt Tab replacement which could explain that the Alt event is captured by VSE upon getting the focus (not being cleared from stack by VistaSwitcher).
What I would like to try is to use Slick-C to capture the WM_GETFOCUS and force putting focus to the buffer window.
Would that this be possible ?
Thanks for any hint.
All the best.
Jerome

Graeme:
Don't know if this would work but you could try running a timer callback that checked every half a second to see whether slick had just regained the focus and call mdisetfocus if so.  This code is un-compiled and un-tested.
 
Also see this about using a timer.
https://community.slickedit.com/index.php/topic,15962.msg61149.html#msg61149


--- Code: ---
int timer_handle;  // must be non static

static boolean slick_last_had_focus;

static void timer_callback1()
{
   if (!_use_timers || timer_handle < 0)
      return;

   if (_no_child_windows() ) {
      return;
   }
   _kill_timer(timer_handle);

   if (_get_focus())
   {
       if (!slick_last_had_focus)
           mdisetfocus();
       slick_last_had_focus = true;
   }
    else
       slick_last_had_focus = false;

   timer_handle = _set_timer(500, timer_callback1);
}

definit()
{
   if (arg(1)=="L") {
      //If this is NOT an editor invocation
      if ( timer_handle != -1 )
         _kill_timer(timer_handle);
   }
    timer_handle = _set_timer(500, timer_callback1);
}



--- End code ---



--- Code: ---
/**
 * @return Returns the id of the window which currently has the focus.  Zero is
 * returned if a Slick-C&reg; window does not have focus.
 *
 * @see _set_focus
 *
 * @categories Miscellaneous_Functions
 *
 */
int _get_focus();


/**
 * Set focus on the editor.  This command can be useful when
 * you are trying to control an instance of SlickEdit from
 * another application or using {@link dde} and you need to
 * transfer focus to the editor to complete an operation.
 *
 * @param mdi_wid MDI window to accept focus. Set to 0 for
 *                current MDI window.
 *
 * @categories Miscellaneous_Functions
 */
_command void mdisetfocus(int mdi_wid=0) name_info(','VSARG2_READ_ONLY|VSARG2_REQUIRES_MDI)


--- End code ---

jcelle:
Thanks Graeme, will definitely look into this !

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