From: Alex Heney <heneya@entcf3.agw.co.bt.uk>
Subject: Re: Redefining keys in forms 4.5
Date: 1996/11/11
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Steve Cosner wrote:
> 
> In article <55be18$n2b@milo.vcn.bc.ca>, Juan Pon <jjpon@vcn.bc.ca> wrote:
> >Is it possible to redefine keys in a specific form?
> >Thanks in advance.
> 
> Sure.  Just write the key-whatever triggers to do anything you want.
> 
> Steve Cosner

This only works for 'Function' keys (F1 - F12, ENTER, TAB,  etc.), and
not even all of those can be intercepted.

I have not found any way to redefine any of the 'Normal' typewriter
keys, and at the current version of FORMS, there is not even any way to
detect when somebody starts typing into a non-database field, so you
cannot just look at the field when the first key is pressed.

Alex Heney