Good day -

I am having an issue using eventwait in a dialog. This dialog has 2 clickable items (hyperlinks related to expanding a specific field contents) and the windows titlebar [X]. There is no update/save or any other action buttons. I am setting ctlid=0 since there is no default landing spot. (Tho i would like to assign the titlebar X as the default, any way to do this?). In any case, everytime I call it i get a exitcode = 99 which is an error condition. Currently not setting any opflags. Have verified i am setting parentid correctly as i know this is also a cause.

Advice on how to get this working? Any traces or debug flags what would provide addtl info?

TIA

The GUI trace will show you some details about the EventWait operation. Usually that error 99 indicates that it can't find any control to put the focus on within the Parent group. You could put the focus on one of those clickable items, but you cannot put the focus on the title bar of a window. (That seems to be a Windows limitation.)

Another possibility in a dialog like this would be to use the EVW_NOFOCUS flag, or bypass EventWait entirely and just wait on the keyboard.

I could just use accept or got or something similar as long as i can get the exitcode info from the click events. I don't need a "tab-thru all the fields" functionality.

You’d have to do your own exitcode translation with those routines. INFLD would do it for you but you’d probably want to make the field invisible.

EVW_NOFOCUS did the trick, thanks!