[Gambas-user] Any way of excluding a control from the tab order?

[richard terry]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:51:11 pm you wrote:
> Wow! Somebody who thinks like me about data entry.
>
> I can’t answer the question but I am good at tangents! I have always used
> the <return> key (in VB and now GB) to control flow. 

Great minds think alike. Agree wholeheartedly what a useless position the tab 
key is, all my old vb code (and my new gambas code) uses the <enter> key for 
all movement through the form.

One can literally whizz through a form containing dozens of data fields in 
microseconds.

Regards

Richard


> That <tab> key is a 
> useless key in a useless position and you have to have three hands to make
> decent use of a mouse under data entry conditions.
>
> PUBLIC SUB txtName_keyRelease()
> IF key.Code = key.Return OR key.Code = 65421 THEN
>     	      txtDate.SetFocus
>     	ENDIF
>
> I should be able to use key.Enter for the numeric pad Enter key but last
> time I tried under GTK it did not work.