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  • Jerry Hartness
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    Re: Form refresh

    Well, got it fixed, and failed to look at this, but on the calculated field that is placed on to screen to look up the name, I never figured I should look at the properties and then setup and sure enough the Tab was enabled, so I did, I thought I did, was to turn all of them off. Thanks fer your help and you were right Al and Stan
    Last edited by Jerry Hartness; 09-06-2018, 07:14 AM.

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  • Al Buchholz
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    Re: Form refresh

    Originally posted by Jerry Hartness View Post
    Al, I know what you are talking about, but I have unchecked all tabs as there are none needed in this program. It's a program you look at and you can search, add, edit, delete, but no tabs need to go from one field to another. Going to try again to upload picture. This is only 1/2 of the picture. At the top where it says "Stan Matthew, there are no tabs" the cursor is on the left side blinking and the only way clear it up is to click somewhere else on the screen so this is why I am requesting a Refresh Form when the form opens.

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]45241[/ATTACH]
    Jerry

    Build a small sample and post it here or email it to me.

    Something is getting lost in the translation.

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  • Jerry Hartness
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    Re: Form refresh

    Al, I know what you are talking about, but I have unchecked all tabs as there are none needed in this program. It's a program you look at and you can search, add, edit, delete, but no tabs need to go from one field to another. Going to try again to upload picture. This is only 1/2 of the picture. At the top where it says "Stan Matthew, there are no tabs" the cursor is on the left side blinking and the only way clear it up is to click somewhere else on the screen so this is why I am requesting a Refresh Form when the form opens.

    MainForm.PNG
    Last edited by Jerry Hartness; 09-05-2018, 03:53 PM.

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  • MoGrace
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    Re: Form refresh

    When you copy an object from another form it will always enable the tab stop by checking it.

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  • Al Buchholz
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    Re: Form refresh

    Originally posted by Jerry Hartness View Post
    There are no tabs only anything. All of them have been disabled. I have another program with the same ideal, so will look at that one to see what I did there.
    Tab Stop is a property of the field object on the form. It is used when you press the tab button on the keyboard to move from object to object on the form.

    From design mode, right click the data object, you'll get field properties with tabbed items - select setup - see attached image.

    You can also set the tab order on the form by using the arrange menu option - set tab order - chose one of the options.

    TabStop.jpg

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  • Jerry Hartness
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    Re: Form refresh

    There are no tabs only anything. All of them have been disabled. I have another program with the same ideal, so will look at that one to see what I did there.

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  • Al Buchholz
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    Re: Form refresh

    Originally posted by Jerry Hartness View Post
    No, it's is from a calculated field in another table and when it appears on the form that called it; it is hightlighted like a line when you select, as in Word when you want to delete and the cursor is there. Just need a way to stop it from being highlighted and that white line on the left is the cursor and it blinks

    [ATTACH=CONFIG]45238[/ATTACH]
    Jerry

    Go with Stan's suggestion....

    https://www.alphasoftware.com/alphaf...l=1#post740057

    Suggest you try unchecking the Tab Stop property.

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  • Jerry Hartness
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    Re: Form refresh

    No, it's is from a calculated field in another table and when it appears on the form that called it; it is hightlighted like a line when you select, as in Word when you want to delete and the cursor is there. Just need a way to stop it from being highlighted and that white line on the left is the cursor and it blinks
    Last edited by Jerry Hartness; 09-05-2018, 08:45 AM.

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  • Stan Mathews
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    Re: Form refresh

    Sounds to me like the NName is calculated field and it is the first in the tab order. Suggest you try unchecking the Tab Stop property.

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  • MoGrace
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    Re: Form refresh

    A screenshot would be helpful. Is this the A5.window_title property you are changing?

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  • Jerry Hartness
    started a topic Form refresh

    Form refresh

    I have a form that at the very top has the name of the program, however over in the setup file I give the user the option to change the name to whatever name they want. One the main form the name is picked up from the setup file: NName = lookup("setup",".t.","Name"), but when the name appears it is highlighted in black I have to use the mouse to click somewhere else to refresh the screen, so where do you put the "refresh display' on the form as soon as it is opened. What event? OnArrive, OnFetch ??? I have tried some of them and apparently they don't work.

    Thanks for your help.

    Jerry
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