Comment 1 Felipe Heidrich 2012-02-02 12:39:51 EST

The behavior is correct, if you press ALT once while you window is up the ui state will change the focus rect will start drawing.
Alternatively we can change windows preferences to always show the focus ring.

Comment 2 Garry Sager 2012-02-02 15:59:54 EST

So is there a way that through code I can have widgets I create that extend the  canvas class display the focus We have radio buttons, combo boxes and others that get the focus but don't show the focus the first time the form they are displayed on is created on windows 7 but the second time the focus is displayed. On other versions of windows and linux we don't have this issue.  Is there something we are supposed initialize in the control or the composite so the focus will display.

Comment 3 Garry Sager 2012-02-16 16:40:27 EST

SO I reopened this bug because the widgets I created that extended the canvas class do not display focus the very first time I display them only on windows 7. I don't understand how to get the UI state set for them but also combo boxes and radio buttons. Is there something I am supposed to call to init this UIstate for windows 7 that I don't need on other system.  This setting for windows 7 that you mentioned I could not find.  Any help would be appreciated.

Comment 4 Garry Sager 2012-02-21 10:30:36 EST

The issue seems to be if the controls are opened within the edtior view within a CTabFolder the CTabfolder UI state needs to be cleared of the Hide Focus on the first time the tab is created.

Comment 5 Felipe Heidrich 2012-02-27 12:05:12 EST

Hi Garry, 

not sure why this work around did not work:
void updateforFocus(Composite control) {
	Event e= new Event();
	e.type= SWT.KeyDown;
	e.keyCode= SWT.ALT;
	control.getDisplay().post(e);
	e.type= SWT.KeyUp;
	control.getDisplay().post(e);
}


What you could try instead, is to change your workaround:


void updateforFocus(Composite control) 
	 {
	 	int /*long*/ hwndShell = control.getShell ().handle;
	 	int uiState = /*64*/(int)OS.SendMessage (hwndShell, OS.WM_QUERYUISTATE, 0, 0);
	 	if ((uiState & OS.UISF_HIDEFOCUS) != 0) {
	 		OS.SendMessage (hwndShell, OS.WM_CHANGEUISTATE, OS.MAKEWPARAM (OS.UIS_CLEAR, OS.UISF_HIDEFOCUS), 0);
	 	}
	 }

to use reflection and only run it when SWT.getPlatform() == "win32".

Comment 6 Felipe Heidrich 2012-02-27 12:10:34 EST

Garry, try this code:
	public static void main(final String[] args) {
		final Display display = new Display();
		
		Shell shell = new Shell(display);
		shell.setLayout(new RowLayout());
		
		Label label = new Label(shell, SWT.SINGLE);
		label.setText("text:");
		final Combo combo = new Combo(shell, SWT.DROP_DOWN | SWT.READ_ONLY);
		combo.setItems(new String[] {"hello", "hi"});
		combo.select(0);
		Button button = new Button(shell, SWT.PUSH);
		button.setText("button");
		
		display.addFilter(SWT.KeyDown, new Listener() {
			public void handleEvent(Event event) {
				if (event.keyCode == SWT.F1) {
					combo.redraw();
					System.out.println("redrawing");
				}
			}
		});
		shell.setSize(200, 200);
		shell.open();
		while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
			if (!display.readAndDispatch())
				display.sleep();
		}
		
		display.dispose();
	}

note that when the window open the focus ring is not visible. When I press Alt the focus ring shows around the combo.


Adding:
Event e= new Event();
e.type= SWT.KeyDown;
e.keyCode= SWT.ALT;
display.post(e);
e.type= SWT.KeyUp;
display.post(e);

After shell.open() causes the windows to show with the focus ring showing.

Comment 7 Lars Vogel 2019-11-14 03:51:00 EST

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