Jason Trahan 2004-11-24 07:31
I installed Ultramon 2.5.22.0 and I noticed that it started changing the behavior of windows combobox controls. Normally in a combobox you can type some letters and it does a semi autocomplete by moving to the next item in the combobox list. While ultramon is running it only goes to the very first character of an item in the item list.
Can you please fix this as I like Ultramon and I would like to purchase a copy if its fixed.
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Christian Studer 2004-11-25 02:36
I haven't been able to reproduce this issue, I tested with UltraMon 2.5 on Windows XP SP2.
Here's what I tested: first I started regedit via Start Menu > Run, then regsvr32. Now when typing reg in the combobox, both regedit and regsvr32 appear in the autocomplete list. When typing e, regedit gets selected, when typing s, regsvr32.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Jason Trahan 2004-11-26 08:55
Sorry I didn't mean the auto-complete list. I'm talking about when you type characters in the combobox it goes to the item in the combobox. Instead of it going to the next time in the list it goes to the first item of whatever character you type. When you turn off Ultramon it works correctly.
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Jason Trahan 2004-11-26 08:57
I also for got to meantion the ComboBox is set for Either DropDownList or DropDownFixed. You know whenever the list is static and you cannot type anything in.
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Christian Studer 2004-11-27 02:47
As far as I know that's standard behavior for combo boxes.
I tested the following on a Windows XP SP2 system without UltraMon installed, using Internet Explorer:
went to www.hp.com, then selected Africa-English from the language selection combobox. First I typed a, and Africa-French got selected. Then I typed r, and Romania-Romanian got selected, not Argentina-Spanish.
When doing the same test with IE on your system (with and without UltraMon running), what behavior do you see?
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Jason Trahan 2004-11-29 02:31
That's the default behavior for Internet Explorer. It is not the standard behavior for Win32 Applications.
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Jason Trahan 2004-11-29 02:35
I guess what i am asking is if you can add a way to disable the hotkey system so it doesn't monitor the system keyboard events or just fix the problem. I had the same problem with ICQ awhile back and they added the option to disable the hotkey system so it would not interfear with the system keystokes.
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Christian Studer 2004-11-29 03:07
Please post a download link for the application which exhibits the problem, and steps to reproduce the issue. Also let me know what operating system you are using.
I haven't been able to reproduce this issue so far, I just tested again with the script combobox on Notepad's font selection dialog, which has the same behavior as the hp.com combobox.
UltraMon hotkeys won't cause any problems, but the hooks used by UltraMon can potentially interfere with application behavior (though they shouldn't).
To disable all hooks used by UltraMon, go to UltraMon Options and make the following changes:
- on the General tab, uncheck 'enable moving of maximized windows using the mouse'
- on the Smart Taskbar tab, uncheck 'use Smart Taskbar'
- on the Window Title Bar tab, uncheck 'add Move Window button' and 'add Maximize to Desktop button'
- on the Window Menu tab, uncheck 'add Move Window command' and 'add Maximize to Desktop command'
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Jason Trahan 2004-11-30 23:28
I will have to write an app for you to show you exactly what I am talking about as the one I notice it in is for our company. However I turned off those 4 options you mentioned and now the combobox is working like it is supposed to. So it does appear that your hooks are doing something to the windows keyboard events. Which is disappointing because the main thing I liked about ultramon was the smart taskbar.
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