A Genie Style Dialog with Tabs
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A Tutorial in Xdialog
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Adding a Mask to an Xdialog Field
Adding Help To a Dialog Box
Adding Right-Click Context Menus
Address Dialog - Adding Blank Lines
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Closing Modeless Dialog Boxes Automatically
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Colored Dynamic Text
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Column Mapping Dialog
Computing the Size of an Embedded Dialog
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Controlling the Font of Static Text
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Controlling the Layout of Dialogs
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Creating a Genie Dialog Box
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Drive Select Dialog Box
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Edit Variable Dialog Box
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Introduction to Dialog Box Events
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Move to Next Control on ENTER
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Owner Draw O Directive Command Summary
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Returning Multiple Values from an Xdialog
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Smart Fields in Xdialogs
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What is a Dialog Event?
What is a Dialog?
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Working with Images that Contain Multiple Sub-Images
Working with Pointer Arrays
Working with UTF-8 Data
Xdialog
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Xdialog Tree Control Custom Colors for Tree Items
Xdialog, HTML, and JavaScript - a Powerful Combination

Setting the Initial Focus

Description

By default the control that has focus when a dialog is opened is the first control on the dialog, however, you may specify a different control. The {initial_focus} command is used to do this. Here is an example where the third edit control in this dialog box gets the initial focus:

ui_dlg_box("Title",<<%dlg%
{region}
First|[.20first];
Second |[.20second];
Third |{initial_focus}[.20third];
Fourth|[.20fourth]
{endregion};
{region}
<*15&OK> <15&Cancel>
{endregion}
%dlg% )

Notice that the third control has focus.

Limitations

Desktop applications only