Focus Ring Weirdness

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I have a simple window with a toolbar, page panel control, and a container control in each of the two page panels. When the window first opens, it really appears like the page panel control has a focus ring - which should not be possible, right?

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  • The toolbar switches the active panel, and switching does not remove the focus ring
  • the container controls both have AllowFocusRing = False
  • while testing I had made the page panel smaller than the window and was able to loose the focus ring by clicking on the window background
  • In Window.Opening i have Self.SetFocus and that does nothing.

Has anyone seen this before?

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May this helps

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That does help, thanks! The search control was mentioned in that thread and I think that’s the common denominator here - I have a search control also.

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I replaced the Xojo DesktopSearchField control with my own search field and the focus ring problem went away.

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Could you share your searchfield? I have this, too, in some windows where I was able to finagle the blasted focusring away. But I now have a searchfield in my main window where no setting the focus anywhere make the focusring go away. I find this super annoying.

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Here ‘ya go:

SearchBarControl Demo.xojo_binary_project.zip (10.9 KB)

I’m sure it can be improved, but it does the job.

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Thank you for sharing.

Do you know if there is an Issue report about this problem? Maybe Xojo can do something to fix it.

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@Clifford_Antrim I had this for months and couldn’t find the source or a workaround — thank you!!!

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I don’t know, but I will look for one later today. I’ll try to put together a sample project too.

@David_Cox You’re welcome! I know I get a lot more from this forum than I give, so I’m happy to help when I can.

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https://tracker.xojo.com/xojoinc/xojo/-/issues/81569

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