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hiCreateAppForm carriage return action

thomas1000

I have a form that kicks off a lengthy process.  I have it set up with OK, Cancel, and Default buttons.  I implemented my own "Default" button so the button specification is:  '(OKCancel (Defaults "AFDefCallBack(hiGetCurrentForm())")

Because the process is lengthy and it is easy for a user to hit carriage return thinking that he is moving on to the next field.  Is there a way to disable the automatic "OK" response for carriage return so that they can finish filling out the form rather than kicking off the process?

  • Actually carriage return does not do an automatic "OK" response; in fact it triggers the "default" button for the form - i.e. the one in Red - the one that is first. So for example, if I define the button layout differently, I can get a different button to fire - one different from the OK button:

    hiCreateAppForm(?name 'fred ?fields list(hiCreateStringField(?name 'jim)) ?callback "println(1234)" ?buttonLayout '(Empty (Defaults "println(5678)") (OK "hiFormClose(hiGetCurrentForm())") (Cancel "hiFormCancel(hiGetCurrentForm())")))
    hiDisplayForm(fred)

    Of course, this example is silly - but you'll see that carriage return triggers the "Defaults" button rather than "OK" now. You could make that first button do something non-time consuming but still useful.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • OK.  I had thought of doing something like that but if I had missed a form feature that disables carriage return response I wanted to know about it.  Your suggestion is good.  Thanks.

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