Re: Something eats next click after click on ToolStripButton

Hi Linda,

The dialog is displayed by a third-party ActiveX control so I don't know the
details of how it is displayed. After it comes up the first mouse click has
no effect but the second click does what it should do. This is true even
when the first click is on the desktop rather than on the dialog. When the
dialog appears it seems to have focus and I can tab around its controls with
the keyboard but it still shows no reaction to the first click. It behaves
exactly as if the toolstrip button captures the mouse when clicked and then
releases it at the next click.

I am inclined not to blame the ActiveX control but if you wanted to follow
it up you could download the evaluation version of WSpell from
wintertree-software.com.

Bill


"Linda Liu" wrote:

Hi Bill,

Based on my understanding, you have a form which contains a MenuStrip and a
ToolStrip and a method. Clicking one menu item in the MenuStip or one button
in the ToolStrip will execute this method.

From this method, you open a modal dialog. When you click the menu item, all
works well, i.e. the modal dialog appears and gets the focus.

When you click the ToolStrip button, the modal dialog appears but the
problem is that the dialog doesn't get the focus. Even if you click the
dialog, it doesn't get the focus. If I'm off base, please feel free to let
me know.

I perform a test by creating a Windows Application project in C#, but don't
reproduce the problem in my test. I show the dialog by calling the
Form.ShowDialog method. The modal dialog appears and always gets focused
whether I click the mneu item or the ToolStrip button in my test
application.

In your application, since the dialog is shown modally, it should get
focused when it is shown. Could you tell me how you show the modal dialog in
your application?

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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