Focus Lost / Focus Gained events

[eaolson]

It would be nice to have Focus Gained and Focus Lost events for front panel objects. I was writing a simple application with a string control that I wanted to always have focus, so the user could just type and not have to worry about whether the cursor was actually in the string control. It's easy enough to give the control focus with the KeyFocus property, but if the user interacts with another control (e.g. a button) the string loses focus. In my event structures, I have to create dummy ValueChanged events in case the user interacts with a control.

[Yair]

This idea might or might not be good (I can't say I really thought about it), but in any case, you have some better options for implementing your example. The Value Change event doesn't really help you, since it doesn't cover cases where users clicked outside the controls or outside the window. You could handle each of those as well (and handle all controls together by using dynamic events), but one easier solution would be to do this:

Personally, I can can't think of many VIs in which I would want something like this, but I suppose you might want this in some VIs.