issue with controller.focusField

Classic Servoy
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Hi,

I have a field on a form that triggers a method when focus is gained, called onFocusGained(). I also have a method on the form that is triggered when the form is loaded, called onLoad().

Inside the onLoad() method I am calling controller.focusField(myfield,false) because I would like my field to get the focus immediately on startup. However, the field does not appear to be getting the focus and the onFocusGained() method is not getting called. I do know that onLoad() is executing because I put info dialogs at the start and end of the method.

Any ideas why focusField isn’t working? I’m on Servoy 5.1.

Thanks,
Rick

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One other thing to note. I verified the “name” property of the field is populated and matches the first parameter in my call to focusField.

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if you put info dialogs at the beginning or the end, than indeed, your onFocusRequest get lost!!
Don’t do anything else, after you do: onFocusRequest…

4

what happens if you do it in onshow?
(dont you want it also for a reshow of the form anyway?, else use the firsttime boolean that onshow gets)

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I have removed the dialogs except from the onFocusGained() method. Still no luck. I also tried calling onLoad() from the onShow event. That didn’t work either.

It seems that focusField() just isn’t working at all, no matter where or how I call it.

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I just tried elements.myfield.requestFocus(true) and that worked as expected.

Anybody know why this works, but focusField does not? To me it seems like they should do almost exactly the same thing.

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how do you exactly call focusFied?
it expect to get the fieldname as a string, not the actual field itself.

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I am currently using:

controller.focusField("myfield",false);

I have also tried:

controller.focusField(myfield,false);

… and I’ve used true instead of false. That’s every variation I could think of.

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The one with a string is the right one
And the true or false just says if it must skip readonly or not.

if you call that method that calls that focusField from a button does it then work?
Are you sure it is the right name?

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This is odd. Before creating the button for the test you suggested, I deleted the field and re-created it. Then I added the button and called focusField from there, and it worked. I also then re-added the call to focusField in the onShow on the form, and it works now too!

I had triple-checked the name of the field before deleting it, so I really don’t think that was the issue. I’m thinking something must have been “messed up” behind the scenes and deleting/recreating the field fixed it.