openfilerequester on top of screen

Palpatine · Post by **Palpatine** » Mon May 10, 2004 7:13 pm

Hi,

My program is running on a screen (using OpenScreen). When I call OpenFileRequester I have some problems:

1. The mouse pointer is not showing
2. After I have selected a file (using keyboard), the filerequester closes but the program screen is not activated so my program 'hangs'...

Cheers,
Ron

walker · Post by **walker** » Wed May 12, 2004 9:34 pm

Hi Palpatine,

the Requesters are NOT designed to work on a GFX-Screen. Therefore you have to write your own...... OR use OpenWindowedScreen () instead. In this case you can use all of the Requesters...

OR send the Screen into the background (like you manually do with ALT + TAB) and then call your requester...
Maybe there are existing examples on [url]http:/www.purearea.net[/url]) ...

cu

Palpatine · Post by **Palpatine** » Thu May 13, 2004 7:08 am

walker wrote:the Requesters are NOT designed to work on a GFX-Screen. Therefore you have to write your own...... OR use OpenWindowedScreen () instead. In this case you can use all of the Requesters... OR send the Screen into the background (like you manually do with ALT + TAB) and then call your requester...
Maybe there are existing examples on [url]http:/www.purearea.net[/url]) ...

cu

Hi,

Thanks. Ok I converted the program to OpenWindowedScreen and it works a whole lot better now. However, I still have the problem that when I start external applications that open their own screen, that my program's window is closed. Can I also prevent that from happening by sending it to the background.
And how exactly do I do that, couldn't find an example for that one.

Cheers,
Ron