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DLL Talk / getting the right focus using BlueGUI

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Homey the Clown
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I am currently working on a level editor and am having quite a problem. its not that it is broken but is quite a nuisance and not very 'professional'. I have a main window which hosts the toolbar, statusbar, and main menu. Within this main window is the dbp camera which is attached to a panel. I believe the problem is that the dbp camera is its own seperate window, hence a seperate focus. So whenever i click within the viewport camera to manipulate something, the main window loses focus... is there a way to make this focus behave right? i hope this makes sense.

the viewport is attached to a 'viewport panel' which is a part of the main window. this has not resolved my problem... any ideas?

Thanks.


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Rudolpho
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I don't know, but have you tried activateGadget mainWindow whenever there is no input to the viewport? (Of course you should also have a flag so that you only call it once, otherwise the application is likely to freeze).

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sladeiw
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Have a look at IanM's matrixutils, specifically GRAB FOCUS and SET ACTIVE WINDOW.
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Homey the Clown
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well one of the main problems is that once the main window has focus, the viewport doesnt take input from the user. I think i will try the one time only activateGadget command but i dont know if this will solve the problem. I might rewrite how to take input since things are working well with mouse input. I think it is just a matter of toggling between windows which is something I wanted to avoid.


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Homey the Clown
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now that i think about it, i might take a more 'gimp' approach to it and have a window for menu and icons, a separate window for the viewport and a separate window for the properties. thanks for the advice though.


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tiresius
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Can you take a screenshot of your editor and label what the problem is? I use BlueGUI in my editor and don't have any problems like you are. I allow the DBPro window to be the main window, and include a side panel. Perhaps that is the difference?

I'm not a real programmer but I play one with DBPro!
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