Re: Did the user press Enter or Field+

A question for you:  Are you using  Y  as the field on the DDS or are you 
using S?  Y gives a much better behaved application.  It deals with issues 
like edited fields so a field can be displayed with a EDTCDE(J $) and the 
user can type into the field in a normal fashion.  It allows a user to 
type into a mm/dd/yy field and not get all messed up.

Yes.  VaRPG understands Lostfocus.  No, there is not a Validate Event. 
Events on an entry  field include the mouse events, keypress, vkeypress, 
popup, link, gotfocus, change, click, drop, and create or destroy.

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Torbjörn Görtz <torbjorn.gortz@swipnet.se>
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Thank you Doug.
You wrote me a very describing answer.

> You could consider using the CHANGE() keyword to set on indicator when
> the Modified Data Tag (MDT) bit has been set by the controller.  This
> will tell you the user did something in the field, even if the field
> ended up with the exact same data contents. 

I think the CHANGE() keyword together with
the cursor position will tell me what I need.
Now I can tell the difference between Enter
and Field+ on an empty field (with Auto Advance).

> Put a different indicator on every field (yuck!)

No problem.  This program teknik I only use in some
important parts of the displays.

> but won't keep users from doing things like partially
> filling a field and pressing Tab or whatever.

I know, this could be a problem on some displays.
But if it is right adjusted fields, the users are partly 
forced to use the Field+ key, so in that case it is 
normally no problem.

By the way, do you code in VA RPG?
Are there any LostFocus or Validate events
like in Visual Basic?

Torbjorn Gortz
Sweden

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