>>I have had users kick back a design becasue they are heads down typists and don't want to find a mouse for clicking on a combo box.
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>>Form is for a physical inventory count.
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>>Data entry is for 3 fields. Tag #, Part # and Count. Gota love that.
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>>Anyway I forced part# fo be bound to the inventory file for it's lookup and it's not fast enough.
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>>I was thinking of just letting them put in what ever they wanted and doing a validation run after the fact.
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>>Any ideas on this issue?
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>You could leave the Part # as a textbox for fast entry (maybe give them a ... command button for doing lookups when necessary), then on the Valid event of the textbox, do a SEEK in the inventory file to validate the code. If this method is too slow then your idea of peforming validation at the end is probably best.
That's kind of what I wanted to do, that or display if found(), the description of that part. That way they could see if it's wrong or right?
I had this done in fp2.6 but I have to bring this over to VFP.