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Leaving edited textbox with a navigation key
I’m new to the graphical interface, and have built a simple VFP 5.0a screen with a 2 column, readonly grid populated from a table, and a pair of text fields with their datasource coming from the same two fields of the table being displayed in the grid.
I navigate with my VCR toolbar, or my special navigation keys set up in the base form’s keypress method. I’m using optimistic row buffering. The purpose of the form is add/edit/delete. My scheme is select with the navigation keys, (the grid hilighting should move) and do my editing in the two text boxes.
I’m having some problems. If after making my change, I move to the next record with my navigation keys without first presing enter, I loose my change. In addition, I can’t seem to get the row highliting in the grid to move as I sit on a text box and press my next() or previous() navigation key. Without a mouse (some of my data entry users) the idea of scrolling through a grid and then going to the textboxes seems a little awkward. I think I’m missing some concepts here.
1) Can I leave either textbox with my navigation keys without loosing my update?
2) How should I link the grid highliting to my navigation while in a textbox?
3) Should I bypass the text boxes, set my grid’s readonly to .f., and do my add/edit/delete directly in the grid?
Bob
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