[vwnc] Problem with ole controls/smallcomx

Hi,

We're trying to embed a video player into a VW application window using SmallCom/X (see attached screenshot). We use an OLEControl to embed it and it runs fine, but as soon as we select one of the buttons on the video player, the VW window doesn't receive keyboard events anymore. The mouse still works but the keyboard is gone until we click on another window and then it's back.

The problem seems to be that the VM isn't sending keyboard events to the image anymore.  The method InputState>>send:eventKeyPress: doesn't get send anymore once we use the buttons on the player.

What can be done about this?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

Interestingly enough, this same thing annoys me about embedded videos on Google Reader – as soon as you click play in the control (say, youtube) the browser will no longer be the target of keyboard events (like j,k, etc) and you’ll need to click anywhere in the browser again to give it back the focus. Could these be related?

Hi,

We're trying to embed a video player into a VW application window using SmallCom/X (see attached screenshot). We use an OLEControl to embed it and it runs fine, but as soon as we select one of the buttons on the video player, the VW window doesn't receive keyboard events anymore. The mouse still works but the keyboard is gone until we click on another window and then it's back.

The problem seems to be that the VM isn't sending keyboard events to the image anymore.  The method InputState>>send:eventKeyPress: doesn't get send anymore once we use the buttons on the player.

What can be done about this?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

I've done an experiment in which I fork a process that continuously does:

                SetFocus(HWND hwnd)

of the window containing the player. SetFocus is a windows procedure that sends keyboard input to the window with the given handle. This fixes the problem but I wouldn't qualify this as a clean fix. Perhaps in internet browsers they also do this when a mouse click is received?

Does anyone have any better ideas to fix this?

Interestingly enough, this same thing annoys me about embedded videos on Google Reader – as soon as you click play in the control (say, youtube) the browser will no longer be the target of keyboard events (like j,k, etc) and you’ll need to click anywhere in the browser again to give it back the focus. Could these be related?

Hi,

We're trying to embed a video player into a VW application window using SmallCom/X (see attached screenshot). We use an OLEControl to embed it and it runs fine, but as soon as we select one of the buttons on the video player, the VW window doesn't receive keyboard events anymore. The mouse still works but the keyboard is gone until we click on another window and then it's back.

The problem seems to be that the VM isn't sending keyboard events to the image anymore.  The method InputState>>send:eventKeyPress: doesn't get send anymore once we use the buttons on the player.

What can be done about this?

Thanks in advance,

Mark