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F1 key
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26/11/2001 19:52:13
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Title:
Re: F1 key
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00585920
Message ID:
00586263
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>Others have given you different ideas to try. However, IMO, you should go to your cusomter and educate them on how Windows works and advise them to use a different method to save. Ctrl+S is the standard.

I know but these hardened data entry people don't like to interrupt their typing and grabbing a mouse so I try to accomodate them. They've been using F1 for years but my apps have evolved, don't get me wrong.



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>>>>In my form's keypress, I want to perform an action if the user hits F1. But the vfp help keeps arising and I do not want to use the "on key label" as that forces me to execute a prg.
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>>>F1 is one of those keys you should stay away from as it is reserved for Help. F10 is another. It's reserved for activating the menu.
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>>I know I'm not supposed to but in my other app, everyone is programmed to hit the F1 key to save a record so I want to give them the option to do so in this app. Possible?
"Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a day.
Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life."
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