Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

[Stephen Williams]

I have a date field that I have popup a calendar on arrival (a la Michael Pesach? i am not writing this thing, just assembling the pieces) A little annoying. Sometimes I just want to type. What would be nice is a doubleclick event for the field as they have for browse objects. Then I have the choice of mousing through the form (the other fields have drop down lists) OR keyboarding.

Please do not hold the presses on version 5 for this, and maybe it could be a user defined object? I have not looked at these too much. They have a mouse event... User defined objects would be a good conference topic.

[whanigsberg]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

"User defined objects would be a good conference topic."

I certainly second that motion. On the mouse event issue, Dr. Wayne's site has an article on programming a user object which you place on top of the form object.

That's not too hard to do, but as you will justly point out, *we* have to do it rather than just choose it.

Bill

[CALocklin]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

Here's my take on your subject question, "Why not a double click event for form objects?"

You can't put other objects on a browse table so you couldn't "do anything" with it until Alpha came up with the OnDoubleClick event. However, you can put buttons, conditional objects, etc. on forms. So, why double click when you can single click on a button? For my pop-up calendar, I simply created a small button that I put right next to the date fields. It almost looks like a drop-down button only it's a regular arrow pointing up and it is always visible (which is the way I prefer it).

[CALocklin]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

Just in case somebody takes my previous post wrong, it should only be taken at face value. I've wondered the same thing myself so the answer above is just my own conclusion to my own question. I never fault anyone for asking for more features - I'd like all the features I can get.

[Peter.Greulich]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

Just in case somebody takes my previous post wrong

Cal, not a chance.

Your button idea is exactly what I do (FYI: Bitmap Library - Tool21). I think it is quite effective. The only thing better would be if A5 had a feature allowing a "button" right in the field where you could attach xbasic - similar to a table lookup field.

[whanigsberg]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

Where exactly do you guys put the button?

Thanks,
Bill

[Stephen Williams]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

'swot i did, right after posting...
I put a bitmap of tool 89 on it, and made it as small as I could. Now I see it, I think I prefer it... It is 0.144 inches wide and 0.188 inches tall (same height as the date field) and I have one by each date field. Code on the button is
dim global seeddate as D
if PHASE->REC_START = {}
seeddate = date()
else
seeddate = PHASE->REC_START
end if
go_on = :form.dialog("cal")
if go_on = "OK"
REC_START.VALUE = Var->Showdate
end if
END

The field is REC_START in table PHASE
I call my calendar form "cal"
I don't think I modified the calendar tool - it uses seeddate and Showdate as variables.
I have two exit buttons on "cal", "CANCEL" and "OK".

[Peter.Greulich]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

Bill, I put it to the right of the field.

[Stephen Williams]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

here - I did NOT write the code for the calendar... very cool. I just futzed a little and added the year buttons...

[Robert Mann]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

How can I get this calendar to work with a5v4.
I downloaded the zip..whats the next step?

thanks

[Robert Mann]

RE: Why not a doubleclick event for form objects?

never mind...I got it..I downloaded the wrong file..