Set Focus

Have you tried hiSetCurrentField? 

If I understand your question right you whant to set the
focus to one of the dialog box buttons 'Yes' or 'No'?

There is an argument for the 'hiDisplayAppDBox' function
called '?defaultButton'.
Have a look at the 'Cadence User Interface SKILL Functions Reference',
Chapter 4, Dialog Boxes.
'Example, if the s_buttonLayout argument is set to 'YesNo, and the x_defaultButton is set to 2,
the No button will be the default button.

Bernd

Thank you for your replies. The button-thing from Bernd is another thing I was looking for.  

Actually, what I want, is that, if the user enters a path, that is detected as wrong or not existing - there is the DialogBox, that informs the user when he exits the path-Stringfield by clicking into or onto another element on the form.

Then, when he clicks on YES, the focus should be back in the path-stringfield instead of the element he clicked on.

The hiSetCurrentField(); doesn't work somehow - is there another thing that can do the trick or is there anything to beware of by using this function?

procedure( checkDirEx( r_formDataStruc )

when( !hiIsInFieldCancel( )
  if( isDir( r_formDataStruc->r_validStringField->value ) then
    hiHighlightField(
		r_formDataStruc
		'r_validStringField
		'background
		)
    nil
  else		
    hiHighlightField(
		r_formDataStruc
		'r_validStringField
		'error
		)
    hiDisplayAppDBox(
               ?name        'warningDialog
               ?dboxBanner  "Directory not found"
               ?dboxText    strcat( 
	                          "Warning: The entered path \"" 
				  r_formDataStruc->r_validStringField->value 
				  "\" does not exist.\n" 
				  )
               ?dialogType  hicWarningDialog
               ?buttonLayout 'Close
	       ?callback "hiSetCurrentField( hiGetCurrentForm( ) 'r_validStringField )"
    ) 
    t
  ) ;; close if
) ;; close when
) ;; close procedure


procedure( UIcreateMyForm( )
    let( ( r_validStringField r_dummyStringField )
    
r_validStringField = hiCreateStringField(
                        ?name       'r_validStringField
                        ?prompt     "Folder of test file: "
                        ?value      ""
                        ?callback   "checkDirEx( hiGetCurrentForm( ) )"
                        )
			
r_dummyStringField = hiCreateStringField(
                        ?name       'r_dummyStringField
                        ?prompt     "Just a dummy field: "
                        ?value      ""
                        )
			
hiCreateAppForm(
	?name		'_myForm_	
    	?formTitle	"Field Focus Test"
	?initialSize	list( 300 80 )
	?fields		list(
				list(
					r_validStringField
				 	15:5 250:25 120
					)
				list(
					r_dummyStringField
				 	15:50 250:25 120
					)
			)
	?attachmentList	list(
			        ( hicLeftPositionSet|
				  hicRightPositionSet
				)
		                ( hicLeftPositionSet|
				  hicRightPositionSet
		                )
			) 
)

) ;; close let 
) ;; close procedure


procedure( UIfieldFocusTest( )

    unless( boundp( '_myForm_ ) && hiIsFormDisplayed( _myForm_ )
        UIcreateMyForm( )
    )
        
    hiDisplayForm( _myForm_  )
 
) ;; close procedure

Thanks for that solution Bernd.

I was wondering if the problem is, that if you exit the StringField by clicking into another Field

-1st: the callback routine is execute, where there is the command for setting the focus into the same Field, where the user just entered the "wrong text"

-2nd: the system handles the Click of the user afterwards and sets the focus in a diffrent field, where the user had clicked....

Maybe there could be a solution with a timer or something similar, although this seems like breaking a fly on the wheel.