Hi all
In the command window if I run the command o = CreateObject("Excel.Application"), an instance of Excel is created and focus returns to the command window.
If I run the command o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch"), an instance of my stopwatch (in Stopwatch.EXE) is created but focus does NOT return to the command window.
Any ideas? TIA
Paul Newton
Is the Init() in stopwatch.exe waiting for something?
Is CreateObjectEx() any different ?
No and no ...
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 14:15 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Is the Init() in stopwatch.exe waiting for something?
Is CreateObjectEx() any different ?
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, at 01:58 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
Hi all
In the command window if I run the command o = CreateObject("Excel.Application"), an instance of Excel is created and focus returns to the command window.
If I run the command o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch"), an instance of my stopwatch (in Stopwatch.EXE) is created but focus does NOT return to the command window.
Any ideas? TIA
Paul Newton
[excessive quoting removed by server]
Is stopwatch.exe a VFP executable?
Yes
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 14:29 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Is stopwatch.exe a VFP executable?
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, at 02:27 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
No and no ...
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 14:15 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Is the Init() in stopwatch.exe waiting for something?
Is CreateObjectEx() any different ?
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, at 01:58 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
Hi all
In the command window if I run the command o = CreateObject("Excel.Application"), an instance of Excel is created and focus returns to the command window.
If I run the command o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch"), an instance of my stopwatch (in Stopwatch.EXE) is created but focus does NOT return to the command window.
Any ideas? TIA
Paul Newton
[excessive quoting removed by server]
Does Stopwatch bring up a UI and Excel does not?
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:27 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
No and no ...
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 14:15 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Is the Init() in stopwatch.exe waiting for something?
Is CreateObjectEx() any different ?
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, at 01:58 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
Hi all
In the command window if I run the command o = CreateObject("Excel.Application"), an instance of Excel is created and focus returns to the command window.
If I run the command o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch"), an instance of my stopwatch (in Stopwatch.EXE) is created but focus does NOT return to the command window.
Any ideas? TIA
Paul Newton
Good thinking Tracy
Excel does not bring up its UI until you explicitly make it visible.
Stopwatch does not have a UI until, after o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch") when you issue o.Start()
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: 21 September 2017 14:31 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Does Stopwatch bring up a UI and Excel does not?
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:27 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
No and no ...
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 14:15 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Is the Init() in stopwatch.exe waiting for something?
Is CreateObjectEx() any different ?
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, at 01:58 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
Hi all
In the command window if I run the command o = CreateObject("Excel.Application"), an instance of Excel is created and focus returns to the command window.
If I run the command o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch"), an instance of my stopwatch (in Stopwatch.EXE) is created but focus does NOT return to the command window.
Any ideas? TIA
Paul Newton
[excessive quoting removed by server]
Paul, As with all VFP objects their visibility is not set until you set them to be visible. This has caught me out a number of times when I thought that the object had not been created correctly so you need to set the .Visible property on in the init. Control the actual on screen visibility via the ShowWindow property of the form and Windowstate property.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: 21 September 2017 14:35 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Good thinking Tracy
Excel does not bring up its UI until you explicitly make it visible.
Stopwatch does not have a UI until, after o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch") when you issue o.Start()
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: 21 September 2017 14:31 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Does Stopwatch bring up a UI and Excel does not?
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:27 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
No and no ...
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 14:15 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Is the Init() in stopwatch.exe waiting for something?
Is CreateObjectEx() any different ?
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, at 01:58 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
Hi all
In the command window if I run the command o = CreateObject("Excel.Application"), an instance of Excel is created and focus returns to the command window.
If I run the command o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch"), an instance of my stopwatch (in Stopwatch.EXE) is created but focus does NOT return to the command window.
Any ideas? TIA
Paul Newton
[excessive quoting removed by server]
Hi Dave
The code is Define Class Stopwatch As Session OlePublic I have tried without an Init procedure defined I have tried with an Init procedure which accepts an HWnd parameter (sent in the CreateObject call) and then uses SetForegroundWindow to try to reset focus back to the calling VFP command window
Maybe define class as something else?
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: 21 September 2017 15:00 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Paul, As with all VFP objects their visibility is not set until you set them to be visible. This has caught me out a number of times when I thought that the object had not been created correctly so you need to set the .Visible property on in the init. Control the actual on screen visibility via the ShowWindow property of the form and Windowstate property.
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: 21 September 2017 14:35 To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Good thinking Tracy
Excel does not bring up its UI until you explicitly make it visible.
Stopwatch does not have a UI until, after o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch") when you issue o.Start()
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: 21 September 2017 14:31 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Does Stopwatch bring up a UI and Excel does not?
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul Newton Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:27 AM To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
No and no ...
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 14:15 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
Is the Init() in stopwatch.exe waiting for something?
Is CreateObjectEx() any different ?
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, at 01:58 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
Hi all
In the command window if I run the command o = CreateObject("Excel.Application"), an instance of Excel is created and focus returns to the command window.
If I run the command o = CreateObject("Stopwatch.Stopwatch"), an instance of my stopwatch (in Stopwatch.EXE) is created but focus does NOT return to the command window.
Any ideas? TIA
Paul Newton
[excessive quoting removed by server]
I would always use 'as custom' if it's a programmatic class.
Alan
That's what it was originally ... and I still had the same issue
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 15:25 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
I would always use 'as custom' if it's a programmatic class.
If I build this into an EXE:
Define Class stopwatch as Custom olepublic
Function Init as Boolean Set Textmerge on noshow Set Textmerge to e:\temp\stopwatch.txt additive <<Datetime()>> started Set Textmerge off Set Textmerge to Return .t.
EndDefine
Then create one, it returns to the Command window. So it's not that it it's not possible, but hard to identify what it is without having the source.
Alan
I changed from Session to Custom and changed Procedure Init to Function Init and included a Return .T. - still no joy - but thanks for your input
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 15:48 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
If I build this into an EXE:
Define Class stopwatch as Custom olepublic
Function Init as Boolean Set Textmerge on noshow Set Textmerge to e:\temp\stopwatch.txt additive <<Datetime()>> started Set Textmerge off Set Textmerge to Return .t.
EndDefine
Then create one, it returns to the Command window. So it's not that it it's not possible, but hard to identify what it is without having the source.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, at 03:36 PM, Paul Newton wrote:
Alan
That's what it was originally ... and I still had the same issue
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 21 September 2017 15:25 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Focus not returning to command window after CreateObject
I would always use 'as custom' if it's a programmatic class.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
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