Thanks to all for your comments. Jim,
That is what I needed, a simple custom form action with a DELROW and NEXTROW worked perfectly. I was also able to assign F9 to the custom form action. Thanks again, my users will be happy (for a while I hope.) Dennis Hodges Maintenance Management Manager FDOT Office of Maintenance MS #52 PH: (850) 410-5635 FAX: (850) 410-5511 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.” Mark Twain This message is intended only for use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender, delete this message, and do not use, disseminate, or copy its contents. From: 'James Bentley' via RBASE-L [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 2:21 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - I need to redefine a function key. Dennis What you want is to create a form custom action to which you assign a function key. Search for custom form actions in RBase Help. Shortcut Key A keyboard shortcut can be defined to launch an action when a key or key combination is pressed. To assign a shortcut, right click on the specific Command Name and select "Shortcut Key" from the menu. Within the dialog, press the desired key or key combination that will be used to run the Custom Form Action. Jim Bentley, American Celiac Society 1-504-305-2968 ________________________________ From: karentellef via RBASE-L <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2016 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - I need to redefine a function key. Yep I understand! I've never tried this -- would a keymap like this work: set keymap [F9] = [F9][F8] That might work, never tried it! If it does work then you could either set it on entry into the form, and set it off when you exit, or if you want [F9] to behave that way all the time (like while in a data browser from the R> prompt) then set the keymap in your startup program. Karen -----Original Message----- From: Hodges, Dennis <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: rbase-l <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wed, Jun 1, 2016 9:36 am Subject: RE: [RBASE-L] - I need to redefine a function key. Karen, I am in a form. I have a delete button on the screen with code below. Our data entry people prefer using just the keyboard and pressing F9 is a lot quicker than tabbing to the Delete button. I am editing 4 separate tables on the form and whichever record has the focus will be deleted. DELROW NEXTROW Dennis Hodges Maintenance Management Manager FDOT Office of Maintenance MS #52 PH: (850) 410-5635 FAX: (850) 410-5511 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.” Mark Twain This message is intended only for use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender, delete this message, and do not use, disseminate, or copy its contents. From: karentellef via RBASE-L [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]?>] Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 10:15 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - I need to redefine a function key. Dennis: Are you talking about being in a form or being in the data browser? If in a form, you can take the delete button out of any navigator control you have located and instead have a button for delete; there you can delete the row and do a "nextrow". You would also probably set a keymap so that the [F9] key is something like a [tab] If in the data browser, I can't think of a way to keymap the [F9] to do a delete then a nextrow. When I first switched from DOS to windows that drove me crazy! In DOS you were always put in the next row which made it easy to delete blocks of data. In windows I have to remember to put myself on the last row I want to delete, then I work my way "up". Karen -----Original Message----- From: Hodges, Dennis <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: rbase-l <rbase-<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>; rbase-l <rbase-<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Wed, Jun 1, 2016 8:45 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - I need to redefine a function key. The F9 key is a delete. It deletes and places the focus on the previous record. I want to delete and place focus on the next record. There are occasions in my application that several records need to be deleted and this would reduce the steps required by the user. Dennis Hodges Maintenance Management Manager FDOT Office of Maintenance MS #52 PH: (850) 410-5635 FAX: (850) 410-5511 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> “When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.” Mark Twain This message is intended only for use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender, delete this message, and do not use, disseminate, or copy its contents. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. 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