How do you make an MDI form take focus away from a component?

[ThomLemon]

I have an MDI application with a page control that has edit boxes and spin edits on several of the tabs. I use the FormKeyDown method of the childwin unit to handle keyboard inputs but when the user clicks in an edit box on a tab on the page control, it never gives the focus back to childwin so the key strokes never get handled. I have tried calling ActiveMDIChild.SetFocus; in the Main form but it has no effect.

Does anyone have any solutions?

Thom Lemon

 

[BobbaFet]

Hi ThomLemon,

In the mdi child form itself try setting in each components
OnEnter event self.SetFocus

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[ThomLemon]

Actually, there are no components on the child. I pass the handle to the window to a set of Cadd routines that allow me to draw within it. The work around I have come up with is to set a timer so that after a few seconds have passed I open and close a dialog box which is never seen but doing so forces focus back to the active child. Doing an ActiveMDIChild.SetFocus should have done what I wanted but it had no effect.
Thanks for your help.
Thom

 

[onealm]

How about using the TForm.Activate method instead of setfocus?