Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tabbing to a DDS output field

Thanks for the reply Joe
I understand what you are saying and realized that if they ARE in fact using field exit - then they MUST be clearing out data
I have a call into the user who told me that - for further discussion

Alan Shore
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-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2019 3:27 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Tabbing to a DDS output field

I respectfully submit that it is easy to do.  If they're using tab to get to the field, then it won't be an issue.  If they're using field exit, then they're wiping out other fields; that seems unlikely.

But if you're ADAMANT about it, you can still handle it.  I really didn't want to go much further down this road, but you can put auto record advance on the field.  Then if they field exit, control will return to the program and you repopulate it and redisplay.  At most they'll see a quick blink.

There are ALWAYS ways around it.  My point is that you're going to throw out the baby with the bathwater for what I consider to be encouraging a bad behavior. And to be clear, the bad behaviro is not the field exit, but complaining about a non-issue.  You might even use this as an opportunity to open a dialog about what constitutes a problem and what is just perception.

This is as close as you're going to get.  The behavior is as requested (tab to a non-enterable field) and the one edge condition (clearing the field with field exit) is non-destructive.  To me that's an opportunity for communication, not a reason to throw out the solution.

Or not.  That's your call.


On 9/5/2019 2:14 PM, Alan Shore via MIDRANGE-L wrote:

Hi Evan
Just to make it easier for the user
The cursor ends up on the left hand side of the screen while the field
I am talking about is ALL THE WAY OVER on the right hand side (NOTE -
THE upper case is me being sarcastic - and stupid. What can I tell you
- Its been one of those days)

Really, its not such a big deal, but I thought that it would just be
easy to do Once I discovered what I wanted wasn't that easy - I became
a dog with a bone, thinking that there MUST be a way Looks like I was
wrong