Re: keyboard lock on error

[Jim Langston <jimlangston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, that's fine if you use the biblical method of typing (see and ye shall 
find)
but for some of my users, myself included, we are touch typists.  I type at 
least 70
wpm (was tested about 10 years ago at that, I'm quite sure I'm much faster now) 
and
if I'm typing away at something and make an error I would mess up 10 additional 
fields
before I noticed there was a problem, if I was in fact looking at the screen.

It takes me a very short time to press the reset key (left control on my PC) 
and continue
on.  If it didn't halt me it would take me a little time to fix up all the 
errors I 
made because the system didn't stop me.

It's a little frustrating on my current PC and applications, however, as I have 
3 PCs
hooked up into one monitor, keyboard and mouse though a BlackBox serv switch.  
You switch
devices by hitting the left ctrl key and then a number.  Left control and F12 
brings up
the menu (press and release ctrl, then hit F12).  It also so happens that in 
one of my
applications you press F12 to clear the fields for a new entry.  So, I make a 
mistake, press
CTRL, press F12 to get a clear screen and... the menu pops up :P  I gotta 
really change the
left ctrl in either my 5250 emulator or the servswitch.

Regards,

Jim Langston

Gwecnal@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know a way to disable the 'keyboard lock on error' function?
> My users find it frustrating to have to press the 'Mommy may I?' key before
> being
> allowed to correct their errors, and I agree.  I don't use the error message
> keyword
> for this reason, I don't use the VALUES or RANGE function either.  When you
> make a mistake, the system already positions the cursor, displays a message,
> and highlights the field.  It should just let you key the correction.
> Thanks, Lance
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