Re: How can I correct MFC focus problem after closing HtmlHelp window?

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:18:51 -0700
Message-ID:
<7CA2D667-C9DE-4DC3-A48D-755BA277319A@microsoft.com>
Do you know the popup dialog's window? You could just use that to force
focus instead.

Tom

"Tom" <tom.monico@gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Sep 25, 1:01 pm, "Tom Serface" <t...@camaswood.com> wrote:

That would explain it of course. If the mainframe has the focus and it's
the one with the handler then that would make sense. However, if the other
dialog is a modal dialog that still shouldn't be happening if the dialog
was
the one that popped up the other window the focus should revert to that
window when the help is closed. Do you have a way to tell when the help
window is closed? If so, perhaps as a stop gap you could force the focus
back to the dialog?

Tom

"Tom" <tom.mon...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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On Sep 24, 4:55 pm, Seetharam <smi...@gmail.com> wrote:

Is your mainframe still disabled? Or do you see it enabled after you
close your help window?

If the mainframe is enabled, you might want to debug through "...\VC
\atlmfc\src\mfc\dlgcore.cpp" and put breakpoints in all places where
you find a "EnableWindow(TRUE)" and debug.

Also, if you rmodal dialog loses modality, please debug the
"EndModalLoop()" method.

-Seetharam


Once the help window is dismissed, both the mainframe and the dialog
appear to be in an inactive state. However, it appears that the
mainframe has the keyboard focus, which I believe is what allows the
shortcut to work.


I tried to do something like that. Here's the basics

void CMainFrame::OnActivateApp(BOOL bActive, DWORD dwThreadID)
{
     CFrameWndEx::OnActivateApp(bActive, dwThreadID);

     CWnd* mainWnd = AfxGetMainWnd();
     CWnd* popupWnd = AfxGetMainWnd()->GetLastActivePopup();
     popupWnd->SetFocus();

}

The problem is that GetLastActivePopup returns the mainframe pointer
on return from the help window, which might be related to the fact
that the mainframe has the focus and not the modal dialog.

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