Validate on TextEditCtrl - Call on closed of GUi and not on lost focus - Normal behavior? - LOGGED

#1
Not sure I follow entirely.

Quote:when I click on my button

Which button do you refer to?

GuiTextEditCtrls trigger validation when they lose focus. If returnTab is set in the profile, losing focus will be forced when pressing enter.

#2 Sorry if it was not clear.
On the same guicontrol, I set a editctrl & a button.
When I click on the button the editctrl keep the focus so the validate function is never called.
So I suspect that button do not take the focus when clicked.

As you said,if I press on "return", the control lose focus and the validate function is called.

My Gui code:

new GuiWindowCtrl(npcInventory) {
      text = "Trade with";
      resizeWidth = "0";
      resizeHeight = "0";
      canMove = "1";
      canClose = "1";
      canMinimize = "0";
      canMaximize = "0";
      canCollapse = "0";
      closeCommand = "ToggleWindowContainer(1,npcInventory);";
      edgeSnap = "1";
      margin = "0 0 0 0";
      padding = "0 0 0 0";
      anchorTop = "1";
      anchorBottom = "0";
      anchorLeft = "1";
      anchorRight = "0";
      position = "408 80";
      extent = "376 432";
      minExtent = "8 2";
      horizSizing = "right";
      vertSizing = "bottom";
      profile = "GuiWindowProfile";
      visible = "0";
      active = "1";
      tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile";
      hovertime = "1000";
      isContainer = "1";
      canSave = "1";
      canSaveDynamicFields = "0";

      new GuiButtonCtrl() {
         text = "Buy";
         groupNum = "-1";
         buttonType = "PushButton";
         useMouseEvents = "0";
         position = "272 384";
         extent = "96 32";
         minExtent = "8 2";
         horizSizing = "right";
         vertSizing = "bottom";
         profile = "GuiButtonProfile";
         visible = "1";
         active = "1";
         command = "npcInventory.buy();";
         tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile";
         hovertime = "1000";
         isContainer = "0";
         canSave = "1";
         canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
      };
      new GuiTextEditCtrl(npcInventoryQuantity) {
         validate = "npcInventory.ValidateQuantity();";
         historySize = "0";
         tabComplete = "0";
         sinkAllKeyEvents = "0";
         password = "0";
         passwordMask = "*";
         text = "1";
         maxLength = "1024";
         margin = "0 0 0 0";
         padding = "0 0 0 0";
         anchorTop = "1";
         anchorBottom = "0";
         anchorLeft = "1";
         anchorRight = "0";
         position = "320 352";
         extent = "48 18";
         minExtent = "8 2";
         horizSizing = "right";
         vertSizing = "bottom";
         profile = "GuiTextEditProfile";
         visible = "1";
         active = "1";
         variable = "$Gui::npcInventoryQuantity";
         tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile";
         hovertime = "1000";
         isContainer = "0";
         canSave = "1";
         canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
      };
      new GuiTextCtrl() {
         text = "Quantity:";
         ...
      };
   };

On the same topic, in my validate function if I set quantity to -10:

function npcInventory::ValidateQuantity(%this)
{
   if($Gui::npcInventoryQuantity<1)
      npcInventoryQuantity.text="1";   
}

it's working but not:

function npcInventory::ValidateQuantity(%this)
{
   if(npcInventoryQuantity.text<1)
      npcInventoryQuantity.text="1";  
}

npcInventoryQuantity.text will not be updated ("evaluated" correctly) even if on the screen the value is correct.

#3

Quote:So I suspect that button do not take the focus when clicked.

Correct. There are separate notions for "mouse focus" (mouse locking) and "keyboard focus" (first responder). A button press will make use of "mouse focus" (i.e. lock the mouse) but not of "keyboard focus" (become first responder).

To force validation from the button press, call GuiTextEditCtrl::forceValidateText() during your button event handling, i.e. in the buy() function you are calling.

#4 Thanks for the explanation, this was not easy to catch.

Did something change on this? I'm pretty sure my Gui was working with previous version.
In all case, I know how to fix this.

What about:

Quote:npcInventoryQuantity.text will not be updated ("evaluated" correctly) even if on the screen the value is correct.

#5

Quote:Did something change on this?

Not that I'm aware of. This has been pretty much the same since TGE :)

There's been some recent changes to first responder handling but these only make the lose/gain first responder status handling more consistent and would only lead to the text edit controls seeing these signals more reliably.

Quote:npcInventoryQuantity.text will not be updated ("evaluated" correctly) even if on the screen the value is correct.

Again, not sure I follow entirely (this my just be my state of mind today :)

Do you mean .text returns a different value than is displayed in the text edit ctrl on screen?

#6 yes exactly
npcInventoryQuantity.text is different than the screen display
npcInventoryQuantity.text is different than my variable
my variable is the same as the display.

#7 Logged as TQA-869.