Forms: Pushbuttons and typing the Enter key
Date: 4 Feb 2003 12:50:04 -0800
Message-ID: <32fe19ad.0302041250.6e08de0a_at_posting.google.com>
[Quoted] Hi all,
I have a simple one block canvas:
[Quoted] One text field and two pushbuttons [ Ok ] and [ Cancel ].
Now I wonder why Forms 5.0 behaves so strange.
I input some text into the text field, press the tab key to navigate to [ Ok ], Ok-Button has the focus now, so in any other Windows-Application I would expect, that I can hit [return] and "A-Button-is-clicked" message is send to the application. But not in FORMS! I have to grab the mouse and click on the Ok-Button to do the job.
I tried several triggers, On-Key-Enter did sound the most promising among these hundreds offered in the smart-triggers menu of the Object-Navigator. With no success ...
Do I have to setup this Key-Enter trigger for the block or for the button. Of course, when the Cancel-Button has the focus and I press enter I want to do something different as in the other two cases when the focus is either on the text field or on the Ok button.
I took a look at key-pressed, but it looked like i would have to analyse the scancode of the key. Pretty complicated for the task that you would expect to be done by the windowing toolkit automatically.
So I guess, there must be a simple solution as the times when you worked with a Forms application without a mouse is not so long ago!
Thanks in advance for any help,
Rolf.
Okay, maybe I should mention, that I run my forms on Windows NT 4.0. Received on Tue Feb 04 2003 - 21:50:04 CET