Limit tabbing in a field

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Mike Bleed <mbleed at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a two column field that I want to limit the
> user tabbing in.  I want the user to be able to tab
> to navigate from the first column to the second
> column, but then not be able to tab to a third
> column.  Is there a way to "lock" a field to only
> use two columns?
> 

Hi Mike,

One way to accomplish this is by handling the 'tabKey'
message in your field script. Example to get you
started:

on tabKey
  if tab is in the value of the selectedline of me
then
    beep
  else
    pass tabKey
  end if
end tabkey

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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