set focus to textbox that hides/unhides

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chloraphil - 04 Aug 2005 18:46 GMT

I currently have a textbox that is hidden unless "Other" is selected from a
listbox. This functionality is implemented in Conditional Formatting.

I want to set focus to this textbox. SelectText doesn't work b/c the code
runs before the rules, therefore SelectText fails b/c the textbox isn't
user-selectable.

Ideas?

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Greg Collins [InfoPath MVP] - 04 Aug 2005 23:21 GMT

Try placing the code into the OnContextChange event handler.
This was the only way I could get it to work with this example:

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chloraphil - 05 Aug 2005 14:41 GMT

Here's my code, which is a bit of a hack, but works: (my apologies if it's
not very readable - it reads well in my VS IDE

public void OnContextChange(DocContextChangeEvent e)
{
if (e.Type == "ContextNode")
{
if (e.Context.nodeName.ToString().Equals("my:CI") && //correct context?

(thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:CI/my:Notifications").text.Equals("Other")) && // and "Other" is selected

((thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:CI/my:other").text.Equals("Enter
Notification Type...")) || // and no changes have been made

(thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:CI/my:other").text.Equals(""))))// or
the user just deleted "Enter Notification Type"
{    //then set focus to the 'other' textbo
    thisXDocument.View.SelectText(thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("my:CI/my:other"),Type.Missing);
}
return;
}
}

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