Focused Control

Piero

It would be useful, eg, to improve auto-preferences-saving, to know what control has focus…

Piero

PS:
Dear Garry,
I'm more into "scripting" than "programming", and from what I saw you mostly use a Mac, SO:

LaunchBar, Script Debugger, FastScripts, PopClip, UI Browser

Garry

Hi Piero,

If you mean a control in a desktop app you’re building, controls already have FocusReceived and FocusLost events. You can use FocusLost to save a preference when the user leaves a particular control.

I can also see the value in asking a window which control currently has focus, especially if you want one shared routine to handle several controls. There isn’t currently a Window.FocusedControl property. Is that the kind of access you mean, or are you asking about the focused control inside Objo Studio for an IDE script?

Thanks for the Mac scripting suggestions too - I’ll take a look.

Piero

I, SuperNoob, saw that the Edit menu is considered "system default" by Objo, so I hoped there was a simple ("system") way to "link" text fields to it

Piero

OOPS! Wrong (Thread) Answer! (but I'm sure you will understand…)

I really hope you will take a look at my suggestions; some are AppleScript-Oriented, and some may seem to be… but…

Piero

PS: Yes, Window.FocusedControl is what I meant; I can imagine other uses for it, but now I'm mostly playing with easy preferences… 🙂

Garry

Hi Piero,

Yes, I think that would be useful. I’ve logged a read-only Window.FocusedControl property for desktop apps. It will return the Objo control currently holding keyboard focus in that window, or Nothing when there isn’t one. That should help when one shared routine needs to work with whichever control is active.

For your preference-saving example, I’d use the existing FocusLost event on each relevant field. In the handler, Me is the field that just lost focus, so you can pass it to a shared save routine. By that point, Window.FocusedControl might already be the next control.

https://feedback.objo.dev/feature/1628