Help! Ditching Dropdown Focus?
 

OMG! This is driving me nutz! Dropdowns persist in holding focus. Would greatly appreciate a solution if anyone has one.

Stuff I've tried

Activated=false
Enabled=false
Visible=false
AbsorbsInput=false
GetsInput=false

All at the same time and on the parent page.

Closing the entire window doesn't work.

Opening other windows over the bloody dropdowns doesn't work.

Activating buttons outside the dropdown page doesn't work.

Hm. Looks like you've tried all the arguments I can think of. The one thing I'd suggest is compare your dropdown to the one in the tracking window and see if you can find any differences that might account for the tracking one not stealing focus.

You said you tried enabled=false, but just in case, here's how I keep text enty boxes from stealing focus (both in the Path Finder in EQ2MAP and in my player window):
- Make an invisible page object that's directly under and is the same size as the text input box.
- Set the OnHoverOut of the text entry box to "Enabled=false"
- Set the OnHoverIn of the invisible page object to "Parent.textentrybox.Enabled=true"

This solves the focus problems associated with text entry boxes anyway.

Quib

Aye, first thing I tried Quib. Various things keep the menus from being selected again, but once they've gotten focus, none of the usual tricks will allow movement with forward and back arrows.

Tested Track with the default UI. It's menu does the same thing.

Hmm... just discovered WC_CloseButton releases focus. Gives me an idea.

WC_CloseButton was a red herring. Focus was dropped only cause I clicked something.

Dropdown focus appears to be unditchable without a click. Posting it as a bug.

Hm, maybe you could make the OnChange on the dropdowns make a clear button appear over the dropdown and clicking the clear button makes it go away and selects the map. This way users will have to relick the drop down (well, the invisible button) to actually change maps, and it'll get the focus off the dropdown?

Quib

Edit: Read your post in the other forum, guess there's nothing that can be done short of a SOE fix. =(

You'd think that would work huh?

Clicking the Reset button I have outside the menu parent page does pull focus off the last selected menu, but emidiately drops it onto the first dropdown in the page tree. Arrows scroll that menu untill the menu page is hidden with a mouseout, and resume scrolling when shown again.

I'll probably end up doing something like you suggest, using a "View" button to bring up the map rather then loading it OnSelect. Should be a tad better but the focus bug is still NASTY!