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Re: [WIN] determining key press

• Posted by Dan Moyer <DANIELMOYER at prodigy.net> Sep 10, 2001
• 800 views

Joshua,

See if this works for you, it took just minutes using Judith's IDE!!  :)

Dan Moyer

<tested code follows:>
--  code generated by Win32Lib IDE v0.10.5

include Win32Lib.ew
without warning

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
--  Window Window1
global constant Window1 = create( Window, "Window1", 0, Default, Default,
400, 300, 0 )
global constant EditText2 = create( EditText, "EditText2", Window1, 20, 24,
50, 20, 0 )
global constant EditText3 = create( EditText, "EditText3", Window1, 128, 28,
50, 20, 0 )
global constant EditText4 = create( EditText, "EditText4", Window1, 240, 36,
50, 20, 0 )
----
procedure EditText2_onKeyPress ( int keyCode, int shift )
if keyCode = 13  then
    setFocus( EditText3 )
end if
end procedure
onKeyPress[EditText2] = routine_id("EditText2_onKeyPress")

----
procedure EditText3_onKeyPress ( int keyCode, int shift )
if keyCode = 13  then
    setFocus( EditText4 )
end if
end procedure
onKeyPress[EditText3] = routine_id("EditText3_onKeyPress")

----
procedure EditText4_onKeyPress ( int keyCode, int shift )
-- whatever you want to happen on last entry
end procedure
onKeyPress[EditText4] = routine_id("EditText4_onKeyPress")



WinMain( Window1, Normal )

----- Original Message -----
From: "joshua goldberg" <futures8 at bellsouth.net>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 5:36 AM
Subject: [WIN] determining key press


>
> Hi, all.
>
> I'm having trouble understanding how to determine (via Win32lib)
> whether the Enter key was pressed.  I've read the docs in
> Win32lib.ew re: onKeyDown and found them to be unintelligible (to me).
> Also, have found no examples of using onKeyDown in any of the
> sample programs.
>
> My need occurs in a program with a number of EditText fields. If the
> user inadvertantly presses the enter key instead of tabbing to the next
> fields, the program assumes data entry is finished, and then proceeds
> to try to process without the required data, and crashes. I'd like to be
> able to trap the pressing of the Enter key, and just setFocus to the
> next EditText field if that event occured.
>
> After a long, sleepless night trying to solve this, I must turn, once
> again to my knowledgeable mentors. Any help will be gratefully
> received.
>
> Thanks.
> Josh
>
>
>