How to force Command Line Focus

[Anonymous]

Hi,

How does one programmatically set the command line to have keyboard focus?

I'm programmatically setting an active/focused PaletteSet's visibility to false.

_paletteSet.Visible = false;

I would like to follow this line with code that sets the command line to receive focus.

The PaletteSet for other reasons has KeepFocus = true.

Thanks!

I've tried various Win32 APIs (SwitchToThisWindow, SetForegroundWindow, SetActiveWindow) to no avail.  I also tried SendCommand() and SendStringToExecute(activate=true,..) , etc.

I imagine there's a way to do this with the native APIs.

Any ideas?  THANKS

[fieldguy]

Try this.

Autodesk.AutoCAD.Internal.Utils.PostCommandPrompt()

[Anonymous]

Thanks...but the command-line still isn't getting the focus.

[fieldguy]

Can you set keepfocus to false before visble = false?  When you show the palette again, set keepfocus to true. 

I don't understand why you would keep focus on a palette that is not visible. 

Can you post some code we can try?    

[joantopo]

I do this:

   Autodesk.AutoCAD.Internal.Utils.SetFocusToDwgView();

Paletteset lose focus and you can write in command line.