>Just a quickie...
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>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????
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>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.
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>Thanks in advance..
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>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.
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