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From: Jim.Russell@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Russell)
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Subject: Re: Questions about fields
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Date: 2 Mar 91 20:49:02 GMT
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Re single line fields:
Set the autoTab property of the fields that you want to keep as 1
liners, then return works just like tab and gets you to the next field.
 
Re field tab order:
The easiest way is to renumber the fields (using cmd-+ and cmd--),
remembering that you have to sometimes issue the command more than you
expect since there may be buttons between consecutively numbered
fields.  If you really want to script, use the select command, i.e.
select after text of field foo (to get the cursor at the end) or
select text of field foo (to get the entire field selected, which is
 
Re locking fields after data entry:
Well, if you want it to work that way for all fields, you can put an on
closeField handler in the background that does set the lockText of the
target to true, but I don't know many users (especially me) that can be
relied on to get it right the first time!
the behavior you expect of tab.)
 
About the horizontal scroll:
I think you will need an XCMD for that.


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