Re: Setfocus / killfocus on cbutton

From:
mfc <mfcprog@googlemail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Thu, 2 Dec 2010 11:07:40 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<1e662c3c-0d74-4ea9-9a25-510be8650544@g19g2000yqg.googlegroups.com>
On 2 Dez., 18:49, Joseph M. Newcomer <newco...@flounder.com> wrote:

Not sure I really understand the question.

Yes, it is possible to change the focus from one button to another, using=

 APIs to move to

the next tab item in the dialog, for example. This is the API that the TA=

B key calls to

change the focus.

It is normal for a mouse click to move the focus. In fact, I'm not sur=

e how it is

possible to defeat this. What are you basing your assertion on? If =

you are relying on

the state you see as the result of your OnDrawItem code, then you have th=

e question about

whether or not you are actually drawing the right thing, which is a diffe=

rent question

than whether or not you have changed the focus. If you change the focu=

s, the button

should redraw, so your drawitem handler should be called once for the but=

ton you just left

and once for the button you just moved into (assuming both are your owner=

-draw buttons). I

love owner-draw buttons, and not once have I had a problem with this.

Unfortunately, your question does not make it clear if the focus changes =

or not, or if the

*image* of focus is drawn properly. Example: having clicked the button=

 with the mouse,

try hitting the space bar. If the button you just clicked into activat=

es again, then

indeed it has the focus; if it doesn't look like it has the focus, your d=

rawing code is

wrong. OTOH, if you hit the space bar and the PREVIOUS button activate=

s, then IT had the

focus, and your drawing code is correct, but focus in fact did not change=

.. You will need

to indicate which of these actually occurs before we can begin to guess w=

hat might be

happening.


thanks for your answer. Unfortunately I was very unclear with my
question: and I missed an important point which I`ve figured out now.

I`ve one class derrived from Cbutton which is called CImageTextButton.
This class has the DrawItems method installed and so on. Moreover I`ve
another class derrived from this class (CImageTextButton) which is
called CSpinCtrlButton. I`ve installed this class for all buttons
which change the cstatic fields.

In this class is only a OnLButtonDown() handler installed. All
CSpinCtrlButtons will increase / decrease the values of the cstatic
fields; the CImageTextButton will open further dialogs when they get
hit by the mouse or by the spacebar. Therefore I made another subclass
from my imagebuttonclass. And in this situation the focus will be only
properly set if I add a SetFocus() call in the OnLButtonDown() method.
My CImageTextButton class didn`t have any OnLButtonDown() method
installed.

class CSpinCtrlButton :
    public CImageTextButton
{
public:
    CSpinCtrlButton(void);
    virtual ~CSpinCtrlButton(void);

    enum ChangeValue
    {
        DECREASE = 0, //erniedrigen
        INCREASE = 1, //erh=F6hen
    };

    void SetValues(CImageStatic *pStatField, BOOL change, UINT min, UINT
max);

protected:

    CImageStatic *m_pField; //static field which is affected by the
spinbuttons
    UINT m_Min; //min value of the cstatic field
    UINT m_Max; //max value of the cstatic field
    BOOL m_Change; //increase/decrease value
    BOOL m_BtnSpinCtrlMode;

protected:

    virtual BOOL PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg);
    afx_msg void OnLButtonDown(UINT nFlags, CPoint point);

    DECLARE_MESSAGE_MAP()
};

best regards
Hans

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