ShowWithoutActivation does nothing???

ShowWithoutActivation does nothing???

• martind2112

  Hi

  Yes I did look at your test project and understand how you have done it. My point was that you can only change the value when the form is first created (because it is read only). As the property only has a Get procedure and no Set procedure it cannot be changed later on. So what is the point - just make it available in the form designer.

  Dave

  
  

• vien11

  Woo yeah :D

  Seemed to haev fixed it mate, thsi is how....
  
  Kinder seems silly to me now that i expected the form that "had" focus to reselect the correct control in the correct staus by just giving it back the focus, so getting the current control first, then the form that had focus, then giving the form back focus and then giving the control focus :)

  Dim ReFocusForm As Object
  Dim ReFocusControl As Object
  
  Public Function ShowMessage() As Boolean

  '====================================================
  '== Check To See If the User Wants to See Messages
  '====================================================

  If GetSetting("OBv3", "Global Settings", "Popups") = "True" Then

  ReFocusControl = ActiveControl

  ReFocusForm = ActiveForm

  Me.Show()

  MouseIn = False

  FinishedDrawing = False

  DrawTimer.Enabled = True

  ReFocusForm.Activate()

  ActiveControl = ReFocusControl

  Else

  Me.Dispose()

  End If

  End Function

  
  

• Daniel Schlößer

  Nope, the only code that is tied to this textbox is

  Private Sub QuickNoteTxtb_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles QuickNoteTxtb.Click

  '===================================================
  '== Clears the text of the Quick Note when entred
  '===================================================

  If QuickNoteTxtb.Text = "Quick Note" Then QuickNoteTxtb.Text = ""

  End Sub

  If you try it on that test application i have put up it should do the same thing to you too, there must be a simple way around this :(

  Otherwise whats the point in puttin the option into the fraimwork, more anoyingly i have done it as per the MSDN example :(
  
  http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.form.showwithoutactivation.aspx
  

  
  

• Clement Yuan

  Sorry its been a hard day (already) and so it may be me being thick again but ShowWithoutActivation is a property of a windows .net 2 form and so you need to add an override like i have to be change the value of a protected property

  Did u get a chance to download the text project i made so you can see exactly how i have doe it

  
  

• AggieNut

  Cadey

  Don't know if you are still monitoring this old thread but I now know why this feature did not work for you.

  It's because in your testform you had topmost set to True

  If you change that to False you will find it works fine.

  Dave

  
  

• Marioh

  Wow thanks mate!!!

  Ill try it at work tommorow, the only thing i proberly did't try!!!

  Doh :)

  
  

• hokial

  I can't imagine anyone has used it as like you have discovered it doesn't seem to work.

  I really cannot see the logic in making a read only property overrideable. Why not just make it available at design time.

  Dave

  
  

• amc

  I did try the workaround on your test project before I posted it and it worked fine - the text doesn't get selected and you can carry on typing with no interruption.

  I doubt if there is a simple answer otherwise someone would have come up with it by now.

  There is another thread running at the moment which also involves problems with selection of text in text boxes

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=253851&SiteID=1

  I'm beginning to think the implementation of the text box in this framework is flawed or are we all overlooking something

  Dave

  
  

• Congi

  It's not normal behaviour for a textbox to highlight all the text when it receives focus. You either have to double click on it or select it programatically.

  Have you got any code in the textbox GotFocus event that could be causing this

  Dave

  
  

• jecottrell65

  Has no one used this new feature yet then
  

• MattyMarsh

  humm, how would i do that then mate. what is your suggestion
  

• Kevin Bowker

  I'm not suggesting there is anything you can do - the property doesn't appear to work. I was just wondering why MS did it this way instead of making it available in the properties of the form designer.

  In the meantime the work around is quite simple.

  Dim C As Control = Me.ActiveControl

  TempForm = New TestForm

  TempForm.Show()

  Me.Activate()

  C.Select()

  but I'm sure you were already aware of that.

  BTW - I think the reason why the override is needed is not because the property is protected but because it is read only.

  Dave

  
  

• SOYGAMA

  i would just like to add i have had to add a "try" around the
  
  

  ReFocusControl = ActiveControl
  ReFocusForm = ActiveForm

  and

  ReFocusForm.Activate()
  ActiveControl = ReFocusControl

  Parts of the code, this is because it will cause a run-time error if there is no form or control in focus when it tries to give it back the focus :)

  
  

• Ben Anderson MSFT

  Cant quite use it in this way im afraid mate, as the pop-up (window) does not always open (the user can control if it does) so i tried it like this.

  It did seem to work but if they are typing at the same time the window opens when the control (ie the textbox) gets focus back the words inside it all get highlighted and as you no if you hit a key when text is all highlighted it will over type it... quite anoying :(

  The pop-up window code is in a global class tha compiles into a DLL and is called like this..

  Public Function ShowMessageWindow(ByVal Subject As String, ByVal Message As String) As Boolean

  '========================================================================
  '==Load The Show Message Window With the Subject And Message Supplied '========================================================================

  If Not IsService Then

  Dim TempWindow As OB3Global.MessageWindow

  TempWindow = New OB3Global.MessageWindow

  TempWindow.Subject = Subject

  TempWindow.Message = Message

  TempWindow.ShowMessage()

  End If

  End Function

  The show message function then does (or did, i took it off because of the above problem) this

  Public Function ShowMessage() As Boolean

  '====================================================
  '== Check To See If the User Wants to See Messages
  '====================================================

  If GetSetting("OBv3", "Global Settings", "Popups") = "True" Then

  '== This will remember the control that has focus befor this winow steals it!!!
  ReFocusForm = ActiveForm

  Me.Show()

  MouseIn = False

  FinishedDrawing = False

  DrawTimer.Enabled = True

  '== Now the form has opened give the focus back to the control that had it befor.
  ActiveForm = ReFocusForm
  
  '== This is the part that gives the focus back, and if the user is typing into a text box
  '== the text gets highlighted and the user over types when they has typed in

  Else

  Me.Dispose()

  End If

  End Function

  Hope this makes sence :D

  
  
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