Dear Iaabelle,

Thank you for your question below. Unfortunately, the GroupWise.Enter() and other positioning commands are all direct encapsulations of the native GroupWise positioning functions. In other words, we have no direct control over what they do.

That being said, this family of command is particularly sensitive to focus. You mentioned you call GroupWise.FocusSet(), which is generally sufficient. However, under some environments, you need to take other steps to ensure the focus is correct.

For example, something we have done in the past is to call GroupWise.FocusSet, then sit in a loop, checking which control actually does have the focus, only breaking out when you have confirmed focus. It can also be a good idea to call Utilities.DoEvents() inside the loop to ensure you don’t block the GroupWise windows messages, which can also be a cause of strange timing problems. (It’s also a good idea to break out of the loop after some pre-determined time so that you don’t end up in an infinite loop).

Another approach would be to build your header in a variable, including formatting such as hard returns, etc, and insert the entire contents at once instead of manually calling discrete formatting/text writing commands.

Finally, you may have come across a problem with the GroupWise client itself. What version of the GroupWise client are you experiencing the problem on? Does it happen on plain text messages, HTML messages or both?

I would also be happy to take a quick look at your applet to see if there are any obvious issues. Feel free to email it to support@advansyscorp.com.

I hope this information helps.

Advansys Support

Thanks for the update. Please let us know if you require any further assistance.

Advansys Support

Isabelle,

You can use the standand VB constant ‘vbcrlf’ to insert a CR/LF pair in a string. You’ll find this constant (and some others) documented in the VBS help file.

Here’s some examples of using this technique. They vary based on whether you are working with plain text or HTML messages.

Plain Text:

headerText = variable1 & vbcrlf & variable2 & vbcrlf
Utilities.ToClipBoard(headerText)
call GroupWise.FocusSet(fcsMessage, "") 
GroupWise.EditPaste

HTML:

headerText = variable1 & "<BR>" & variable2 & "<BR>"
Utilities.CopyHTMLToClipboard(headerText)
call GroupWise.FocusSet(fcsMessage, "") 
GroupWise.EditPaste

In terms of querying the focus, I’m afraid I’ve accidentally misled you. I was thinking of querying the current view or window. Unfortunately, GroupWise does not provide a means by which you can query control focus. Please accept my apologies. What you could try is something like this:

if GroupWise.EnvCurrentViewName() = "Mail" then
   call GroupWise.FocusSet(fcsMessage, "")
else
   MsgBox "The mail view is not active - FocusSet will not work just yet."
end if

Without knowing the exact context in which you are accessing the body (I would need to see the applet), this is the general approach you can use, i.e. check that the view is active (and possibly activate it) prior to attempting to call any FocusSet() methods.

I hope this helps.

Advansys Support

[This message was edited by Support 3 on September 07, 2004 at 04:58 PM.]