Outlook stealing either spacebar or enter key stroke

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Outlook stealing either spacebar or enter key stroke
 
Pawel Forys




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 Joined: 2016-04-27
Hi,
Following up on the topic: https://www.add-in-express.com/forum/read.php?FID=5&TID=14028. We have previously discovered that simply introducing the empty ADXFormManager fixed some of our focus behavior problems. On the hand, we have just realized that ADXFormManager steals the enterkeystroke in textarea loaded into Forms.WebBrowser. So when user hits enter, nothing happens.
By using Keyboard hooks we are able to intercept the enter key and trigger some action in our Web Application in Forms.Webrowser. Unfortunately raising enter keydown event in the javascript doesn't trigger new line in the HTML textarea.

We could still rollback to the previous solution and remove the ADXFormManager from our project, but then we would somehow need to be able to manipulate the focus when our WPF window with WebBrowser is loaded. My question with this approach is:

How can we programmatically remove the focus out of the reading pane in outlook. We need that, because when user clicks in the Outlook Explorer reading pane, since then space key stroke is being "stolen" and used for automatic scrolling of the reading pane. Removing focus from this pane should do the trick.
Posted 08 Nov, 2016 05:27:48 Top
Andrei Smolin


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Hello Pawel,

You can try to use the SetFocus Windows API function to set the focus on another window. For instance, you can find the window which hosts your browser and set the focus on it. It is possible that you will need to activate that window; use the SetActiveWindow WinAPI function. Hopefully this will work for you.


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 08 Nov, 2016 08:06:19 Top
Pawel Forys




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 Joined: 2016-04-27
Hi Andrei,
Thank you for the suggestion!

Best regards
Pawel Forys
Posted 08 Nov, 2016 08:36:05 Top
Andrei Smolin


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You are welcome!


Andrei Smolin
Add-in Express Team Leader
Posted 08 Nov, 2016 08:59:06 Top