tabbing into a droplist, receiving focus without having to click it
Bryan Brodie
brb at appimatic.com
Tue Jun 16 00:26:53 EDT 2015
Hi again,
Silly me! This is on a Mac.
All I had to do was alter the $fieldstyle in the property manager
from CtrlDropdownList to <none> and then reformat the field appearance
attributes, then the old behavior returned.
Thanks!
Bryan Brodie
On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:45 PM, Bryan Brodie <brb at appimatic.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> In a legacy application I'm modifying, running under studio 4, it was
> possible during data entry to tab into a droplist and have it receive
> focus. The user could type the first few characters of their choice, then
> tab out and continue editing data.
>
> The studio 4 version of this library legacy application supports this
> functionality.
>
> In studio 6, it seems that the only way for the droplist to receive the
> focus is to click it. When I monitor events during data entry, the droplist
> is completely ignored unless I click it.
>
> Is there notation that can set or override this behavior?
>
> Or, another window object that will behave in the same way?
>
> I tried pop-up and standard lists but they do not behave in the same way
> droplists did in studio 4.
>
> Thanks for any input or guidance you can offer.
>
> Bryan Brodie
>
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