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Saved me a few keystrokes
I normally would type as (oDbf:cAlias)->(dbSeek(cSeek, nil, .t.))

If you use database objects then you can just do:

oCustomer:goBottom()

Thanks Rao,
Saved me a few keystrokes
I normally would type as (oDbf:cAlias)->(dbSeek(cSeek, nil, .t.))

... email system you have ( hopefully ) built into the program to automatically attach that pdf to an email and send it. Thus you eliminate any extra keystrokes. Tim

... I should keep adding my two cents. Coupla of things. Can the edit of a mode be done in place, rather than in a popup? Also, I'm not clear on how keystrokes are processed. Is it based on the scancode in ctscan.ch? I tried changing it to other keystrokes, but it didn't respond.   oTree:bKeyChar ...

... maybe better) that for every key we proceed, a second Xbrowse would show the result for the matching record. That way we can see from just a few keystrokes that that customer is already into the database, and we can skip the rest of the data and try the next adress.

... is that people who use tools ( like computers ) don't often like change. However, they do like saving time, and especially with computers, saving keystrokes. Tim

... there will be more people with the same first name than with the same last name. Thus putting the last name first gets you a result with less keystrokes.

... is present or not. This functionality of xbrowse is dependent on the keys pressed when xbrowse has focus. If we set lSeekBar to .T., these keystrokes are displayed in the box. The box is displayed on the top of the column that is sorted. Since, incremental seek works on the sorted column, ...

... environment of say 100 users using the application, each user on average modifying 100 rows, sorting 20 times, incremental seeeks with 50 keystrokes. ADO and FWH place an addition burden on the server/network traffic by around 500 KB only and that too only for saving data and retrieving ...

... words, when I click on a column in the header, it would be nice for the first row of that column to show a "field" that displays the keystrokes I'm entering for an incremental search. If I click a different column, it then displays the input in the first row of that column. Thoughts ...

Otto,

What keystrokes do you need to support ?

We are currently quite busy working on unicode completion, but once it is ready I can work on this

... limited data entry and manipulation. I think this is why so many business users are so frustrated with Windows 8x. Expert users are used to using keystrokes for just about everything and constantly having to use touch on the screen really slows them down. So, although FW does not use the standard ...

tried in many ways 'simulate' keystrokes, but could not. used both
___Keyboard (Chr (18))
as
keybd_event (chr (18), 0x45, 0x0001 | 0,1)

... (adOpenStatic). So why this useless and purposeless code oRs:CursorLocation := adOpenDynamic in our program, wasting oneline of code and about 40 keystrokes every time? Isn't this better? Once set oCn:CursorLication := adUseclient // 3 and while opening recodsets, save time, energy, space and ...

... everything to streamline the _Isearch() function including reading the len of the variable and only evaluating the recordset every 2nd and 4th keystrokes.. Compile and type Lipk in the Last Name field to review the results.. un remark out the MsgInfo function ..test .. then rem it out again ...