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We have found this strange behaviour:

We have a program called “main menu” and can call the various programs over the menubar or a treeview.

If we use the keyboard the called programs display a dotted line around active combo-boxes.

If we use the mouse the called programs don't display the dotted line and the user does not know which field has the focus.

This happens under windows and thinclient, version 9.5.

We have found this strange behaviour:

We have a program called “main menu” and can call the various programs over the menubar or a treeview.

If we use the keyboard the called programs display a dotted line around active combo-boxes.

If we use the mouse the called programs don't display the dotted line and the user does not know which field has the focus.

This happens under windows and thinclient, version 9.5.

You probably use the configuration variable WIN32_NATIVECTLS 1 .. this provides a Windows native control look and feel. When mousing over controls, instead of a dotted line you'll see the control subtly changes color.

We have found this strange behaviour:

We have a program called “main menu” and can call the various programs over the menubar or a treeview.

If we use the keyboard the called programs display a dotted line around active combo-boxes.

If we use the mouse the called programs don't display the dotted line and the user does not know which field has the focus.

This happens under windows and thinclient, version 9.5.

We use "WIN32_NATIVECTLS 1" with the combo box style of drop list, and this is a problem for us as well.

What we've done is wrap the control in a frame that is slightly larger with a fill color and fill % of 100. Then in the before/after procedures of the control we make the frame visible/invisible to draw attention to what has focus.

We have found this strange behaviour:

We have a program called “main menu” and can call the various programs over the menubar or a treeview.

If we use the keyboard the called programs display a dotted line around active combo-boxes.

If we use the mouse the called programs don't display the dotted line and the user does not know which field has the focus.

This happens under windows and thinclient, version 9.5.

Thanks, that works of course. Our problem is that the way we initiate the call (keyboard or mouse) effects the appearance of the combo-boxes in the called program.
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