Re: Display-only items

From: Bob Cunningham <bcunn_at_oanet.com>
Date: 1998/03/20
Message-ID: <3511b873.71607589_at_news.oanet.com>#1/1


On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 15:18:39 -0800, "Mark Cudmore" <mcudmore_at_kamloops.env.gov.bc.ca> wrote:

>I want to create an item on a form that is visible, but I don't want the
>user to navigate to it with their mouse. The only way I can do this is to
>set the ENABLED property to False, but this greys out the item, making it
>hard for the user to read it. What should I do?
>
>--
>Mark Cudmore
>email: mcudmore_at_kamloops.env.gov.bc.ca
>
>
>
As you seem to have found, setting the NAVIGABLE property to False will stop keyboard navigation but not the mouse. You could add a PRE-TEXT-ITEM trigger to this item that simply RAISEs a FORM_TRIGGER_FAILURE. This will stop all navigation to the item.

Bob Cunningham
bcunn_at_oanet.com Received on Fri Mar 20 1998 - 00:00:00 CET

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