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Hi,

I would like to understand the following native behaviour in a dialog box:

Wyou initially click on a control, it gains the focus but it doesn't display
a focus rect. Hit tab once or several times to come back to the control and
it displays a focus rect. Hit tab again to remove the focus from the
control, now click on it and it regains the focus but this time it displays
a focus rect.

So gaining the focus is not enough to display a focus rect. Hitting tab
fixes that once and for all.
Why this behaviour ?

I would like a focus rect in any case. Is there a solution ?

Thank you

Nicolas

Impressive. You're right.

Now, is there a programmatical way to override this setting in my program ?
Or a way to emulate the checkbox being unchecked ?

Thank you

Nicolas



display
and
displays

?

One thing you can try doing to circumvent this behavior is to add a line
like...

PostMessage(WM_UPDATEUISTATE, MAKEWPARAM(UIS_CLEAR, UISF_HIDEFOCUS));

...just before you return from your WM_INITDIALOG handler.

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Jeff Partch [VC++ MVP]