Author: Dan Honeycutt
Date: 18:00:51 12/20/04
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On December 20, 2004 at 19:04:03, José Carlos wrote: >On December 20, 2004 at 18:46:17, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On December 20, 2004 at 13:54:17, Dan Honeycutt wrote: >> >>>I'm up to about 250 games with Arena 1.1 with no glitches save one. About every >>>5 games or so it grabs the focus. I minimize it, but after a few more games >>>it's back. This is an annoyance but seems to cause no other problem. >>> >>>Anyone else had this behavior or know if there is a setting I've got wrong which >>>could cause it? >>> >>>Thanks >>>Dan H. >> >>I am not familiar with "grabs the focus" term, what are the sypmtoms when that >>happens? > > The focus is a property of windows objects (forms, text boxes, buttons) that >means that object is selected. For example, if you click TAB in a window with >many text boxes, the focus goes to each of them with every TAB. > When he says Arena grabs the focus he means it gets to front, and is ready for >you to send keys to it. If it is minimized, it gets maximized. > I've experienced this also. When I run nunn-like matches (starting position is >not standard, but every game Arena reads the starting position from a file with >FENs), it grabs the focus every new game. > I informed Frank in the past, with many details (that's why I have not >repeated it here anymore) that this focus thing seems to be related to the >crashes I experience. > > José C. Good explanation of the focus José. I'd just add that most objects have a GiveMeTheFocus method. They can set the focus themselves - you don't have to click on or tab to them. But - now that I've watched carefully for a while - it's not setting the focus, it's restarting completely. It picks right up with the tournament in progress as though nothing had happened. I'm up to some 300 games now with no crashes or other apparent problems. Puzzled Dan H.
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