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--- setting_20the_20focus_20in_20a_20dialogue_20box [2018/03/31 13:19] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ setting_20the_20focus_20in_20a_20dialogue_20box [2024/01/05 00:21] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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 =====Setting the focus in a dialogue box=====
-//by Richard Russell, May 2010//\\ \\  If you want to initialise a dialogue box so that the input **focus** is on a particular control, simply make that control the first in the template (i.e. the first to be created after calling [[http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwing.html#newdialog|FN_newdialog]]). By default the first control always gains the initial focus.\\ \\  However if you want to **move** the input focus to a different control, once the dialogue box has been opened, you should do that using the following code:\\
+//by Richard Russell, May 2010//\\ \\  If you want to initialise a dialogue box so that the input **focus** is on a particular control, simply make that control the first in the template (i.e. the first to be created after calling [[http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwing.html#newdialog|FN_newdialog]]). By default the first control always gains the initial focus.\\ \\  However if you want to **move** the input focus to a different control, once the dialogue box has been opened, you should do that using the following code:
+<code bb4w>
         WM_NEXTDLGCTL = 40
         SYS "GetDlgItem", !dlg%, id% TO hdlgctl%
         SYS "PostMessage", !dlg%, WM_NEXTDLGCTL, hdlgctl%, 1
+</code>
 where **dlg%** is the value returned from **FN_newdialog** and **id%** is the ID of the control that you want to receive the input focus.