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Get current GUI control with focus?

Discussion in 'Immediate Mode GUI (IMGUI)' started by chrischris, Jan 3, 2008.

  1. chrischris

    chrischris

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    How do I get the name of the GUI control that currently has focus?

    I've searched the forums docs but have found no way of doing so.

    Am I missing something obvious ( hopefully )?
     
    chrischris, Jan 3, 2008
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  2. shaun

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    GUIUtility.keyboardControl -Use this to figure out which control has the caret/keyboard focus (I'm not confident this works 100% on windows though)
    GUIUtility.hotControl - use this to see which control is "active" i.e. has mousedown. It gets reset to 0 on mouseup.

    Also - there's a GUI section in this forum. Please post GUI questions there.

    Cheers
    Shaun
     
    shaun, Jan 3, 2008
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  3. chrischris

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    GUIUtility.keyboardControl returns an integer that appears to be an internal ID. I can't find a straightforward way of getting this internal ID for a control. I would like to get the name of the control, since it is the only means we have to assign an ID.
     
    chrischris, Jan 3, 2008
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  4. shaun

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    GUI.SetNextControlName and FocusControl are the only ways I know of accessing controls by name.
    I haven't tried this, but GUIUtility.GetControlID seems like it gets the ID of the next GUI control. Good luck :)
     
    shaun, Jan 3, 2008
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  5. ahmedvu153

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    I've searched the forums docs but have found no way of doing so
     
    ahmedvu153, Jan 26, 2015
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