Keeping Focus on a Form

[paulmansour]

Hi all,

I have a form that behaves as a wizard. From the user's perspective it is modal, but it is []DQ'ed repeatedly by the calling function. For example:

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[]DQ, wait on form
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[]DQ wait on form
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etc...

My problem is that the wizard flashes between pages as forms in the background are brought to the front for a moment between calls to []DQ. Explicity setting the focus to the wizard form after the DQ does seem to prevent the problem.

Any advice is welcome.

[paulmansour]

Interestingly enough, I just noticed that when a strickly modal message box is displayed and then dismissed during the course of the wizard, from that moment on , the focus stays on the wizard and does not flash back to the background form.

[AndyS|Dyalog]

⎕dq is designed to return the focus to where it was immediately before the ⎕dq started.

One thing to try would be to expicitly set the focus on the form immediately before the ⎕dq starts .. does that improve things ?

[paulmansour]

Andy, thanks for the tip, but setting the focus doesn't help. However, a little more investigation reveals my problem does not occur in the runtime version, so it probably has to do with []DQ interacting with the session, which is really no problem for me as all I care about is the end user's experience in the production, runtime, product. So I'm good. Thanks for your help.