How to insert a TAB in TMultiGet using the keyboard

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Dear friends, is there an easy way to insert a TAB character (CHR( 9 )) in a TMultiGet object using the keyboard? ALT-9 doesn't seem to work.

Thanks in advance.

EMG

[James Bott]

Enrico,

This is from my notes.

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To allow the Tab key in memo gets add this to keyDown method:

// add next two lines
case nKey == VK_TAB
return 0

Normally the Tab just goes to the next field.
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However, it doesn't seem like a very good solution since you have to modify FW source.

Regards,
James

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

Thank you. I will wait for a solution that don't require to change FWH sources.

EMG

[Antonio Linares]

Enrico,

Please be ware that if you want to insert Tabs then you will not able to use Tab to give focus to the next control.

I would try it this way:
oMemo:nDlgCode = DLGC_WANTALLKEYS

[Enrico Maria Giordano]

For the moment I'm using this:

Method KeyChar()

if nKey == 63 .and. nAnd( nFlags / 65536, 255 ) == 57
::Replace( CHR( 9 ) )
if ::bChange != nil
Eval( ::bChange, nKey, nFlags, Self )
endif
return 0
endif

It allows me to use ALT-9 to insert a TAB. The TAB key on the keyboard is untouched.

Do you think it is a good solution for the standard TMultiGet?

EMG