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Re: how to give program the focus?

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From: Larry Salomon Jr.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:33
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In <9207292038.AA20166@data.src.honeywell.com> bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom) writes:


>This may be a relatively easy answer, but I want to capture mouse button
>clicks on my window.  I've done this by processing WM_BUTTON1DOWN and
>I do get the coordinates I want.

>But, when I do this, the title bar for my window loses the focus
>(grays out).  When this happens, I can't use ALT-F, etc key
>combinations to navigate the menus until I explicitly click on the
>title bar (or menu bar) again.

>So, how do I make sure that the window retains the focus?

Are you returning MRFROMSHORT(TRUE) from WM_BUTTON1DOWN?
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From: os2man@panix.com (Larry Salomon Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer
Subject: Re: how to give program the focus?
Message-ID: <1992Jul30.033314.19711@panix.com>
Date: 30 Jul 92 03:33:14 GMT
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