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[Tekl]

Hi Chris,

what about adding a "FOCUS"-option to the Controls, so it is possible to focus a button by default.

If a button has focus, it would be nice that's also possible to navigate with the cursor-keys. Maybe the Options could have a group-option to let the cursor toggles only between the buttons of a group.

Tekl

[Titan]

There is GuiControl, Focus [...]
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[Chris]

[Tekl]

[Serenity]

Tekl, I think controls tab order are created according to their place/order in the script. You can also use the -TabStop option to have a control be ignored/skipped by the tab key.
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[Tekl]

Hi,

I don't want exclude something from the taborder but I want navigation with cursor-keys.

Tekl

[Chris]

Buttons are already navigable with the arrow/cursor keys. Perhaps you can try a short script such as the following to help explain how the navigation is improper or undesirable:

Gui, Add, Edit
Gui, Add, Button,, Button1
Gui, Add, Button,, Button2
Gui, Add, Button,, Button3
Gui, Show
return

GuiClose:
ExitApp

[Tekl]

Hi Chris,

you're right, that works. In my script there are images infront of the buttons so AHK wont group the buttons. I create the Button/Image-List within a Loop. Maybe I have to separate image and button-creation in a two loops. But then I must know where to put the images. Relative to existing controls is only possible for the last control or one Section. Maybe numbering Sections would help. Or do you have a different idea?

Tekl

Gui, Add, Picture...
Gui, Add, Button,, Button1
Gui, Add, Picture...
Gui, Add, Button,, Button2
Gui, Add, Picture...
Gui, Add, Button,, Button3

[Chris]

I see what you mean. I think your idea of having two loops is best, but you're right that relative positioning then becomes a problem.

Although there might be better positioning options in a future version, for now I hope you can find some workaround, perhaps by storing positions temporarily in an array or comma-separated list.

Someone also suggested the ability to change the internal ordering of controls to fix navigation issues like this one. However, that is another feature that doesn't exist yet.

[Tekl]

Hi Chris,

thanks for the idea with the array, I haven't thougt of this. Yes, TabOrder would be nice.

Tekl