Subject Re: FORMS USEING ENTER VERSES TAB From Cornelius <jcmsoftware@gmail.com> Date Mon, 12 Sep 2022 02:23:16 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Mervyn Bick Wrote: > On 2022/09/09 10:47, Cornelius wrote: > > Hello there, > > When in a form I gave to use TAB to move to next entry. > > How can I use the ENTER key to do that. > > > > Regards, > > > > Cornenoius > > > Have a look at CUAENTER in the help file.  SET CUAENTER OFF will cause > the Enter key to behave like a TAB and will move focus to the next > entryfield control. > > This behavior does NOT apply to pushbuttons.  If focus moves to a > pushbutton pressing the Enter key is the same as clicking on the > pushbutton with the left mouse button. > > If you only ever have one form open at a time then you shouldn't have > any problems.  Be aware though that CUAENTER is a global property so > once you set it OFF it will affect every entryfield control on every > form in your application. > > If you set CUAENTER ON, i.e back to its default setting, when you close > a form it will also be ON for any other forms that are still open even > if you had issued the command SET CUAENTER OFF in the open forms' onOpen > event handlers. > > One can get round this by not setting CUAENTER ON if any other forms are > open.  You will either need to keep track of open forms yourself by, > say, updating a user-defined field in the _app object each time a form > is opened or closed or by using findinstance() to check for instances of > your forms in memory. > > > Mervyn. > Good day Mervyn, Hope you had a nice weekend. Thanks for making mine nice. Every thing working better now. Regards, Cornelius.