J Stein

Reply to Child Objects "Dead" - not responding in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Thanx for reply JourneyMan, I checked the activation as suggested on the parent object, and it was already on Default. Since I "solved" the problem with my workaround, I've continued with my scripting and code optimization, etc. Just for the hell of it, I went back to the original way by hiding the object within the parent script again. It works !?!?!? Very strange indeed. You wouldn't belive how many times I tried to no avail befo

Reply to Child Objects "Dead" - not responding in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Followup FYI, As a past and long time VB coder, it seems that DesktopX does not truly expose itself to VBScripting. This is a fact that I'm slowly learning & making adjustments accordingly when in the DesktopX environment. Try scripting API & you'll see what I mean ! Not a complaint actually, but just a learning experience to break some of my known VB scripting practises. It seems (although I don't know why or fully understand), t

Child Objects "Dead" - not responding in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Hi guys, This is driving me nuts ! I have a parent object which contains various buttons to manipulate an objects appearance - Hue, Brightness, etc. Rather than setting mouse events for each button (with multiple scripts running), I'm taking advantage of the "Ex" feature "OnMouseEnterEX" to have one script running which handles the children in the parent script. When I'm in DX builder, everthing works great ! When I create the widget, t

Integrated Hotkey or keyboard support in DesktopX WinCustomize Forums

Hi All, Being new to DesktopX but an old Vb programmer, unless I'm missing something, there seems to be no keyboard support for the desktops. What seems like an important and fundamental feature is absent. ex; tabbing to objects, using arrow keys to navigate menus, etc. I'm building my desktop for use with a remote seting up hotkeys for the remote. I'm going to try to build an Inkey, select case loop to trap the keys I want, to which wi