Page.CreateObject OBJECT_INPUT ReadOrder ignored

[Imagine Programming]

Hi there,

I'm not sure if this has ever been reported before, I believe I did at some point during the development of Object.lmd.

Page.CreateObject(OBJECT_INPUT, "test", {
    Alignment = 0;
    BackgroundColor = 16777215;
    Border = 2;
    Enabled = true;
    FontAntiAlias = true;
    FontColor = 0;
    FontItalic = false;
    FontName = "Segoe UI";
    FontScript = 0;
    FontSize = 9;
    FontStrikeout = false;
    FontUnderline = false;
    FontWeight = 400;
    HScrollbar = false;
    Height = 23;
    InputStyle = 0;
    MaskReturnMode = 0;
    MaskText = "";
    Multiline = false;
    Placeholder = " ";
    ReadOnly = false;
    ReadOrder = 0;
    ResizeBottom = false;
    ResizeLeft = false;
    ResizeRight = false;
    ResizeTop = false;
    Text = "";
    TooltipText = "";
    VScrollbar = true;
    Visible = true;
    Width = 200;
    X = 5;
    Y = 32;
});​

In AMS 8.5.0.0, Input.GetProperties("test").ReadOrder will result in `1` and Input.GetProperties("test").ReadOrderBoolean (an undocumented property) will also be true.
Setting ReadOrderBoolean in CreateObject will not solve this issue. What would be a nice pure-AMS workaround?

[Imagine Programming]

Toggling WS_EX_RTLREADING on the Input's GWL_EXSTYLE does solve the weird Input behaviour, but the Input property still will tell you it's RTL.

[Ulrich]

While I agree that it shouldn't be required, a

tProperties = {};
tProperties.ReadOrder = 0;
Input.SetProperties("test", tProperties);

right after the Page.CreateObject() appears to set the property properly for me, with AutoPlay Media Studio 8.5.3.0

Ulrich

[Imagine Programming]

While I agree that it shouldn't be required, a

tProperties = {};
tProperties.ReadOrder = 0;
Input.SetProperties("test", tProperties);

right after the Page.CreateObject() appears to set the property properly for me, with AutoPlay Media Studio 8.5.3.0

Ulrich

Indeed, that does fix the RTL problem. Interesting, I always thought that for SetProperties you had to do a GetProperties to preserve the properties you didn't want to change.
Thanks, this might be a clean solution in my context.

[Imagine Programming]

There also seems to be a problem with creating a ListBoxType of LB_CHECKLISTBOX with Page.CreateObject.
I cannot remedy this with a SetProperties, as that causes the items to not be added afterwards.

-- no checkboxes after creation
Page.CreateObject(OBJECT_LISTBOX, "object_type_exclusion_list", {
    FontScript = 0;
    FontSize = 9;
    VScrollbar = true;
    Border = 1;
    ResizeBottom = false;
    MultipleSelection = false;
    Sort = false;
    FontItalic = false;
    FontStrikeout = false;
    ResizeTop = false;
    ListBoxType = LB_CHECKLISTBOX;
    FontAntiAlias = true;
    HScrollbar = false;
    ResizeRight = true;
    FontWeight = 400;
    TooltipText = "";
    BackgroundColor = 4278190080;
    Visible = true;
    FontName = "Segoe UI";
    Width = 200;
    Y = 5;
    X = 210;
    Enabled = true;
    ReadOrder = 0;
    Height = 146;
    ResizeLeft = false;
    FontUnderline = false;
    TextColor = 12632256;
});

-- uncomment next line and no items will show up anymore
-- ListBox.SetProperties("object_type_exclusion_list", {ListBoxType = 1});

for i = 1, 5 do
    ListBox.AddItem("object_type_exclusion_list", "Item #"..tostring(i), tostring(i));
end  ​​

[Imagine Programming]

Another problem with ListBox; e_Key will never be 9, making me believe that the tab key is not forwarded to the event. This is true even when _AutoTabOrder is false.
When I dynamically create a ListBox through Page.CreateObject, _AutoTabOrder no longer works (even after setting ZOrder). This means it has to be done through code,
but this appears to be impossible too without the use of plugins.