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Programming => LCL => Topic started by: simone on December 03, 2021, 12:37:56 am

Title: Completely remove the focus from a form
Post by: simone 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.
Title: Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
Post by: trev 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.
Title: Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
Post by: simone 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?
Title: Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
Post by: jamie on December 03, 2021, 05:04:00 pm
What does the "Disable" property do for you ?
I assume the form does have one.
Title: Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
Post by: simone on December 03, 2021, 05:26:11 pm
I did not understand your answer. Which 'disable' property are you referring to?
Title: Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
Post by: jamie on December 03, 2021, 05:28:12 pm
The form has a "Enabled" property, that disallows input.
Title: Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
Post by: simone 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?
Title: Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
Post by: jamie on December 03, 2021, 07:12:16 pm
Yup
Title: Re: Completely remove the focus from a form
Post by: trev 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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