>>Ernie,
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>>Adding to what Barbara said. . . you must also ensure that you have CONFIRM set OFF.
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>>Cheers,
>>Jim N
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>>>>Is there a property that can be set *somewhere* that will globally cause the cursor to exit a textbox field when the maximum amount of data allowed has been entered? You know, say a phone number with 10 digits ... after the 10th digit is entered, I would like the cursor to move to the next control. (Pretty common, but for the life of me, I can't find what makes that happen.)
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>>>>Please and thanks.
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>>>Ernie, check the FORMAT and INPUTMASK properties of the textbox control. You should be able to handle everything you want with these - telephone numbers, social security numbers, etc.
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>>>Barbara
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>Thanks for your input. I've tried playing with FORMAT, INPUTMASK, MAXLENGTH, and making sure SET("CONFIRM") = OFF but I'm still having trouble making this work. I must still be missing something. Inputmask is (999) 999-9999, Maxlength is 10, and Format is KZ. Could there be an overriding property elsewhere? Baffled.
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>Ernie
Hi Ernie,
Two points :
1. In format mask you use KZ. Z for zero, is this a numeric value ? For tel. numbers it's convenient to have char values and format mask as KR.
2. SET CONFIRM is scoped to current datasession. So if globally you have *set confirm on* and you set it on entry.prg *off* it won't *set confirm off* in form loading with a DE. It will be set back to *on*. In DE, beforeopentables event add *set confirm off*