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shift-tab not tabbing in reverse
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:10 pm
by billworld
I like the way RR goes about setting the field tab-into order. However, I'm bothered that shift-tab doesn't send the focus back to the previous field in the tab order. This is pretty much standard for any app. that provides tabbing.
Why isn't this built-in to RR?
Am I correct in assuming that to accomplish this functionality I'd have to set a script for each field in the tab sequence to go back to the prior field upon receiving a shift-tab keystroke?
If that's the case, is their a way to automate inserting the same scripting routine into dozens of fields? (Well, I'm sure there's a way, just need little help understanding how to accomplish it.)
Thanks
Bill
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:15 pm
by malte
Hi Bill,
how exactly did you set this up?
For the most part this appears to work under Rev. Do you have a simple demo stack, where it does not?
Cheers,
Malte
Re: shift-tab not tabbing in reverse
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:16 pm
by billworld
Hold on... I'm seeing that shift-tab DOES work to tab-back in some fields. Need to dig deeper as to why it wasn't working on some of the fields I was trying it on...
billworld wrote:I like the way RR goes about setting the field tab-into order. However, I'm bothered that shift-tab doesn't send the focus back to the previous field in the tab order. This is pretty much standard for any app. that provides tabbing.
Why isn't this built-in to RR?
Am I correct in assuming that to accomplish this functionality I'd have to set a script for each field in the tab sequence to go back to the prior field upon receiving a shift-tab keystroke?
If that's the case, is their a way to automate inserting the same scripting routine into dozens of fields? (Well, I'm sure there's a way, just need little help understanding how to accomplish it.)
Thanks
Bill
Re: shift-tab not tabbing in reverse
Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:22 pm
by billworld
Problem solved. I still had some fields with tabstops set to their default of 75 (been struggling with that in a diff. thread). Anyway, if a field has a tabsopt, then you can't back tab out of it.
billworld wrote:Hold on... I'm seeing that shift-tab DOES work to tab-back in some fields. Need to dig deeper as to why it wasn't working on some of the fields I was trying it on...
billworld wrote:I like the way RR goes about setting the field tab-into order. However, I'm bothered that shift-tab doesn't send the focus back to the previous field in the tab order. This is pretty much standard for any app. that provides tabbing.
Why isn't this built-in to RR?
Am I correct in assuming that to accomplish this functionality I'd have to set a script for each field in the tab sequence to go back to the prior field upon receiving a shift-tab keystroke?
If that's the case, is their a way to automate inserting the same scripting routine into dozens of fields? (Well, I'm sure there's a way, just need little help understanding how to accomplish it.)
Thanks
Bill