Jim -
Thanks for your response.
Getting back to this after a long time away: I don't need to know which
button is pushed on the mouse. Rather, I need to know the screen location
of the mouse when the button is pressed.
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At 08:26 AM 4/8/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>Bernie:
>The ISTAT functions for mouse location do not operate in Windows R:Base. I
have had success using:
>SET VAR vbutton text = (sget(.#FORM_COLUMNNAME,4,1))
>
>Which returns the last button pushed. The sget is necessary because it
returns a long text field with unpredictable contents.
>
>There is also:
>SET VAR vbutton = (CVAL('form_field_name'))
>but this seems to be designed for the form remaining open. I often set up
buttons to close the form then check to see which button closed it - with
that arrangement and the CVAL function, it returns the current value of
whatever form is currently open - I often have a form within a form.
>
>One of these should solve your problem.
>
>Jim Blackburn
>Kodiak
>Bernie Corrigan wrote:
>>
>> I am attempting to pick up the position of the mouse at the time of
>> a button press from an exit EEP attached to a from field. The button is
>> located at about row 20 on the form yet ISTAT('MOUSEROW') returns the value
>> 1. The field with the EEP which uses the ISTAT function is on row 7. When
>> I press [Esc] to leave the process I get the following error. Note there
>> are no stored procedures in this database system.
>>
>> -ERROR- Column or variable VAR STP_RETURN ouserow not found(2515)
>>
>> The reason it is necessary to pick up the mouse row position from an
>> EEP is that when a form button is pressed the form handler processes an exit
>> EEP (if it exists) for whatever field the cursor was in at the time of the
>> button press before it processes the EEP associated with the button which
>> was pressed. If the field exit EEP checks field values for errors and
>> returns the user to the field in case of a null or erroneous value then the
>> form user can get stuck in a loop where a button press to exit the form will
>> simply return the user to the field the cursor was in at the time of the
>> button press. One could get around this by picking up the mouse position
>> from the field exit EEP and skipping error checks depending on mouse
>> position. Unfortunately it seems that the field EEP can't get an accurate
>> read of mouse position from the ISTAT function.
>>
>> Comments? Ideas?
>>
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