When you add an AppletGrapic to a View (in this case when you call "show" method of the Dialog you are making a View where the Dialog in question will be shown), its child window is given the focus. Note that at this point of time there are two View's. The top level View that contains the Dialog and the AppletView that contains the AppletData.

In order to make the TextField in your Dialog take the focus, you will have to somehow make the Dialog's View take the keyboard focus (takeing it away from the Child View).

There are APIs for changing the object that has focus (see
request-key-focus for example) but there is no public API for
requesting a View's Window get the focus. There is aworkaround however, via our support for automated testing via
Mercury QuickTest. If you call prepare-test-parent on a View it
will take the keyboard focus in order to prepare for playing back arecorded script. The snippet below shows how you can use it.
Note that this is a workaround at best. It could interfere with the
use of QuickTest and if you should subclass View and override
prepare-test-parent the call might have undesired side effects(which you could avoid by calling (v asa View).prepare-test-parent).
Every workaround is a compromise of course, and this could be
sufficient to solve your current problem.

Here is the code that you will need to add to your Dialog constructor. Note that the DialogShow event handler is fired at the Dialog after the Dialog is added to a View and is shown.

{on DialogShow at d:Dialog do

|| We are adding an artificial delay here so that the focus is already given to the

|| AppletGraphic's child window by the gui-toolkit system before we take it away.

{after .2s do

{if-non-null v = {d.get-view} then

{v.prepare-test-parent}

}

}

}

Note that "prepare-test-parent" calls the method to set the focus to the View's Window and hence wll help us here to force the focus to the Parent view.

Message was edited by: Kamal

Message was edited by: Kamal