Hi Kevin,
I don't understand. SYS(1270), a truely great function, returns an Object Ref to the object the mouse is over. If the mouse is above THIS, I know the user didn't click to move. But if it isn't, I don't. If it's above another control I don't know much of anything. Are you saying test for MDOWN() if the LostFocus() or Valid(), then get the object ref? That doesn't work reliably on a quick click. Please explain.


>John,
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>>any instructions on how to use sys(1270)?
>>?sys(1270) returns an error code of 9 - data type mismatch
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>It's very simple to do *and* you don't need to create any additional flags at the form level that clutter up the interface. SYS(1270) returns an object reference to the object under the mouse pointer. So you can do a simple check to determine if the user has clicked on the object of interest.
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>Let's say focus is on object A and the user clicks on object B. You can put the following code in object A's Valid():
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>IF SYS(1270) = ThisForm.ObjectA
> *--- Place processing code here
>ENDIF
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>I prefer this approach because it's self-contained and thereby a cleaner implementation.
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>Regards,