Bernie,

I just found HIViewSetID and am testing it now.  Thought about using globals but I have enough of those already.

thanks for all your help.  


~ steve

On Nov 23, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Bernie wrote:

> 
> Steve wrote:
> 
>> So if I clear keyboard focus from this search field control  how do I programmatically find the HIviewRef of this control without an ID number and set this field to be active using ?
> 
> Good question!
> 
> At first, I was going to suggest stuffing the search field ref in a global but if multiple windows share the same toolbar, the global may not point to the correct field.
> 
> Been a while since I looked at this stuff, but OTTOMH how about assigning an ID to the field in MyCreateSearchField:
> .....
> dim as HIViewID   viewID
> viewID.signature = _"Srch"
> viewID.id = 1
> fn HIViewSetID( view, viewID )
> .....
> 
> And when you want to set focus:
> .....
> dim as HIViewID    viewID
> dim as HIViewRef   view
> viewID.signature = _"Srch"
> viewID.id = 1
> fn HIViewFindByID( fn HIViewGetRoot( w ), viewID, @view )
> fn SetKeyboardFocus( w, view, _kControlFocusNextPart )
> .....
> 
> There's gotta be a better way.
> 
> Bernie
> 
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