Setting Focus

[Tanerax]

I went through the forum looking and havn't managed to find a post regarding my particular circumstances to setting focus with custom dialogs.

I am looking for a way to change the focus of the "Install" to default to "Back" on the buttons at the bottom of the screen. For one of my custom dialogs.

[Red Wine]

Instructor has wrote a very nice example at this thread,

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=240492

You need only the SetFocus call with system plugin

[Tanerax]

That has information on changing information on stuff located in the custom dialog but how do I get focus to a button that belongs to the ui (back button) ?

[Red Wine]

back button id is 3, so GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 3

[Red Wine]

Just found a thread that is identical to your request,

http://forums.winamp.com/showthread....hreadid=149265

[Tanerax]

Originally posted by Red Wine
back button id is 3, so GetDlgItem $0 $HWNDPARENT 3

I currently running with

GetDlgItem $r2 $HWNDPARENT 3
System::Call "user32::SetFocus(i r2)"

When I messagebox the $r2 value it comes out as the right handle according to my spy++ app but I can't seem to get this to actually set focus to cancel.

Is it possible that the installer is setting the Install Button to focus after the fact? thus overriding it?

[Red Wine]

Hold on a couple of seconds, both we shall learn from kichik

[kichik]

$R2 and $2 are not the same. For the System plug-in r2 is $2 and R2 is $R2.

[Tanerax]

Originally posted by kichik
$R2 and $2 are not the same. For the System plug-in r2 is $2 and R2 is $R2.

So then the following should work?

GetDlgItem $2 $HWNDPARENT 3
System::Call "user32::SetFocus(i r2)"

Back is still not getting selected as a focus..

[kichik]

Where exactly did you put this code?

[kichik]

Hmm... You probably want to set it as the default button and not have focus on it. For that, there's WM_NEXTDLGCTL. Include WinMessages.nsh and use:

code:
GetDlgItem $2 $HWNDPARENT 3

SendMessage $HWNDPARENT ${WM_NEXTDLGCTL} $2 1

[Tanerax]

I am loading up a custom dialog using InstallOptions::initdialog so its after loading that, and before InstallOptions::show

[Tanerax]

Originally posted by kichik
Hmm... You probably want to set it as the default button and not have focus on it. For that, there's WM_NEXTDLGCTL. Include WinMessages.nsh and use:

code:
GetDlgItem $2 $HWNDPARENT 3

SendMessage $HWNDPARENT ${WM_NEXTDLGCTL} $2 1

Actually that worked perfectly thanks a bunch.