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From
14/12/2001 07:00:39
Hilmar Zonneveld
Independent Consultant
Cochabamba, Bolivia
 
 
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14/12/2001 03:29:32
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00594287
Message ID:
00594315
Views:
23
>Just a quickie...
>
>I've just been shown a very unpleasant bit of behaviour by a check box. If it has the focus and the user presses 'return' the value changes....eh????
>
>My colleague catches character 13 and flips the value to make sure it doesn't change. That can't be right...surely! Please tell there is a way of stopping this...I'm afraid my colleagues have been using VFP for too long and have got used to this sort of thing.
>
>Thanks in advance..
>
>Pablo

I tell my users something like this:

"The Windows standard for moving around on a form is Tab and Shift-Tab. Just take a look at the dialogs in Word and Excel.

ENTER and down-arrow work sometimes, but they can have unexpected side-effects, including (for ENTER) selecting a default button, selecting the current button, or changing the state of a control, or, for down-arrow, changing the state of a control.

I recommend to use Tab and Shift-Tab."

For the programmer: I don't recommend inventing a new interface for the cases when the Windows standard works fine. It just ain't work the trouble.

Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
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