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[abg]

Hi AHK community!

I occasionally experience the problem that my AHK menus are not receiving keystrokes like up or down or ampersand shortcuts.

Unfortunately, I was not able to create a short script demonstrating this bug deterministically. However, I have noticed that at least one other user is experiencing this:
http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic10365.html&highlight=menu+focus

I therefore wanted to ask you guys, if you observe the same thing.

A bit more background: I am using WinXP SP2. I used a custom menu, not TRAY. My first thought was that the menu did not have the focus. I tested this with a script allways displaying the active window's id and it turned out to be the same in cases where the menu behaves properly and incorrectly.
My next thought was a sticky key. But the KeyHistory looks fine.

Does anyone have the same problem or do you even have an idea of how to solve it?

[Chris]

In addition to the topic you linked above, here's a more specific one: Popup menu sometimes doesn't have focus

Here are my current theories for why a popup menu doesn't always get keyboard focus:

1) If your script is running at high process priority, it's possible that the Sleep(0) currently used internally by the program isn't effective. It might need to be increased to Sleep(5) or so.

2) Maybe the MSDN-recommended technique of sending WM_NULL needs to be done even for non-tray menus. If nothing else above helps, I could send a test version to whoever has this issue to see if it helps.

Also, it would help me if you could try activating one of the script's own windows (even its hidden main window) prior to displaying the menu. If that fixes it, it would be valuable info.

Thanks.

[abg]

Hi Chris,

thank you very much for your quick reply. Actively focussing the hidden AHK main window seems to solve my problem.

Do you have a hint how to best identify the main window? Can usage of

[Sean]

[Sean]