Form.LostFocus and Form.GotFocus not working right

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  13 years ago

  by Momruoy

  Momruoy

  Wisconsin, United States

  Joined 17 years ago
  I'm making a DX8 game, running almost entirely in modules, and I want the game to pause automatically if it loses focus.
  I tried putting a GameHasFocus boolean in it, setting it to true or false in the Form.GotFocus and Form.LostFocus events on the form, but it's not working right.
  Can anyone help me out here? Is there an API call for checking on form focus?
  
  
  
  
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  13 years ago

  by Akhtar Hussain

  Akhtar

  Mumbai, India

  Joined 15 years ago

  hi momruoy,

  u don't need any API for form focus, u r right in ur way, but just declare ur boolean variable in ur main module then it'll be public for all form and u can use it to true/false in Form.GotFocus/Form.SetFocus events

  'like

  Public GameHasFocus as Boolean      'Declare it in main module

   

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  13 years ago

  by ErwinB

  Erwin Bergsma

  Leuven, Belgium

  Joined 15 years ago

  I guess the problem is that the GotFocus and LostFocus events only work within the application.  E.g. if you show another form within your app.  What you're looking for is responding to the whole application losing focus.  Check the following article on the Microsoft site about how to use a timer and an API call to achieve this:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/69792

  Regards,

  Erwin

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