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

[Robert Rowe]

I'd like to add my vote for a tabstop property. I almost exclusively 
write data entry programs at work in VB. I often have controls that are 
little used that I remove from the tabstop. I've also had a lot of 
requests from my users for navigation via the enter key. The real 
problem with the enter key is that multi-line controls throw a wrench in 
the works. I wrote a kludge at work that eats the enter key and does a 
sendkeys("TAB"). The users love it. I think that you could do the same 
Richard. Set up an observer for your controls, catch the enter key and 
eat it then issue a sendkeys. My VB version is a class that 
automatically hooks into all the controls on a form so all I have to do 
is init an instance of my class and turn it on.

Robert Rowe

richard terry wrote:
> 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.
>>     
>
>
>
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