Remove focus rect from button

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   Is it possible to remove the focus rect from a pushbutton?

We have an application that uses some small flatstyle buttons with just a 16 pixel image inside.

When the button gains focus, the rectangle is drawn inside the small button temporarily 'destroying' the image.

I've tried to subclass the button to eat the WM_SETFOCUS message. Whilst this works for vb6's native commandbutton, it doesn't seem to be working on the pushbutton.

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JantjeKeizer Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 12 February 2008 Status: Offline Points: 70	Post Options Post Reply Quote JantjeKeizer Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Remove focus rect from button Posted: 27 February 2008 at 5:26am
	Is it possible to remove the focus rect from a pushbutton? We have an application that uses some small flatstyle buttons with just a 16 pixel image inside. When the button gains focus, the rectangle is drawn inside the small button temporarily 'destroying' the image. I've tried to subclass the button to eat the WM_SETFOCUS message. Whilst this works for vb6's native commandbutton, it doesn't seem to be working on the pushbutton.

nighthawk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 11 June 2004 Status: Offline Points: 167	Post Options Post Reply Quote nighthawk Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 March 2008 at 7:21am
	I've ran into the same situation with other controls where I don't want it to show a focus rectangle. My solution is to manually move the focus to another control. So, at the end of the click event, have a line such as: Button1.SetFocus You can send the focus to any control that has a "SetFocus" method. If there aren't any that you want to get focus, create one and move it off-screen so it is never seen. I don't think it would work to set it to be invisible because I seem to recall that you can't give focus to an invisible control.

Jebo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 October 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 318	Post Options Post Reply Quote Jebo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 March 2008 at 12:14pm
	@Codejock-team Is there a "DrawFocusRect"-Property in the next release? Because I've the same problem and the focus rectangle is realy nasty!

corpcon Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 28 June 2007 Status: Offline Points: 70	Post Options Post Reply Quote corpcon Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 March 2008 at 1:43pm
	nighthawk's solution is simple and is what has been used by developers for more than the past decade.

Jebo Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 27 October 2005 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 318	Post Options Post Reply Quote Jebo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 March 2008 at 1:52pm
	@corporn no this is no solution it is only a workaround. Because I can't use taborders for my customers. If the user press <Tab> to jump to the next control on form he'll always jump to a special control (what ever one). This "solution" I used before some years - and it is realy bad - the result is a uncontrolled GUI and much more code (U must check if the destination-control is enabled OR U must use "On Error Resume Next" uaaaa) And by the way: nighthawk's "solution" works only, if the user "Click" the button!!! If the user focus the button on another way (like TAB-press) U need code for "On_Focus Event" too!!!

Oleg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 21 May 2003 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 11234	Post Options Post Reply Quote Oleg Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 March 2008 at 1:20am
	Hi, DrawFocusRect property added for 12.0 release
	Oleg, Support Team CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS