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simone

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Completely remove the focus from a form
« on: December 03, 2021, 12:37:56 am »
Is it possible to completely remove the focus from a form? In other words, I want a form without any controls with the active focus. I found this old issue:

https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/issues/25396

which reports that TForm.ActiveControl: = nil is not working. It seems to me that the problem has not been solved. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks.
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Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2021, 12:51:10 am »
I want a form without any controls with the active focus.

Set the tabstop property of the controls to false. Works for me.

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Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2021, 03:36:01 pm »
Thanks Trev, your solution works. The only drawback, if I understand correctly, is that I have to set TabStop to False in every control that can receive the focus. I tried under Windows. Do you know if it also works with other widgets?
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Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2021, 05:04:00 pm »
What does the "Disable" property do for you ?
I assume the form does have one.
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simone

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Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2021, 05:26:11 pm »
I did not understand your answer. Which 'disable' property are you referring to?
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Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2021, 05:28:12 pm »
The form has a "Enabled" property, that disallows input.
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Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
« Reply #6 on: December 03, 2021, 05:52:11 pm »
You wrote 'disable', not 'enabled'. For this I did not understand.  Thank you for your suggestion.  I can't prove it now.  But in this way I disable mouse and key input for the form and the controls inside it?
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Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
« Reply #7 on: December 03, 2021, 07:12:16 pm »
Yup
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Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2021, 09:10:39 pm »
Thanks Trev, your solution works. [...]I tried under Windows. Do you know if it also works with other widgets?

Works for me in Cocoa and GTK2.

 

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