Re: [PATCH setup] Make Enter in the user URL box cause ADD instead of NEXT

[Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>]

On 12/7/2017 11:55 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> On 2017-12-07 13:46, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 12/7/2017 1:35 PM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> On 05/12/2017 17:32, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> On 12/5/2017 11:03 AM, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> On 12/5/2017 7:58 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
>>>>>> The search textbox on the package chooser page needs the same fix.
>>>>> It's not immediately clear to me how to do this, since I don't know what the
>>>>> default pushbutton should be while the user is typing in the search box.
>>>>> One possibility is to convert the label "Search" to the left of the box to a
>>>>> SEARCH pushbutton, whose effect is to call OnTimerMessage(). If we make this
>>>>> the default, then pressing Enter will cause the search filter to immediately
>>>>> take effect, which is probably what the user expects.
>>> It seems a bit weird to have a button which automatically pushes itself half a
>>> second after you finish typing.
>>> Attached is my attempt, which (ab)uses an invisible button.
>> I agree, this is better than my version.
>>>> Something like the attached?  This might not be quite right, because the
>>>> previous default button is never restored.  I'm not sure how important that is.
>>> I think it's something that should be done, if possible, so I added that.
>> In my testing, 'Next' does indeed become the default button after I click
>> outside of the textbox, but there's no visual indication of this.
>> The MSDN page for DM_SETDEFID
>> (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms645413(v=vs.85).aspx) mentions
>> a different situation where button highlighting doesn't accurately reflect the
>> default button.  In that case it suggests sending a BM_SETSTYLE message to
>> change the border style.
>> I looked at the documentation for BM_SETSTYLE, but it wasn't obvious to me what
>> do do.
> 
> Seems like you want to change the button state not style - checking around you
> might want to use Button_SetState macro or BM_SETSTATE message TRUE to
> highlight, FALSE to reset:
> 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb849168(v=vs.85).aspx
> 
> with Button_SetStyle macro or BM_SETSTYLE message style BS_DEFPUSHBUTTON |
> BS_CENTER | BS_VCENTER | BS_TEXT | ...  as appropriate, so that ENTER works like
> a click:
> 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb775951(v=vs.85).aspx

Thanks for the suggestions, but I tried various BM_SETSTATE and 
BM_SETSTYLE messages, and I couldn't find anything that worked: 'Next' 
remained unhighlighted.

Ken