How to arrange cursor-direction on enter in a grid?

[INFORMAT]

I use a grid just like Excel to enter some values in a column. On enter, I want the cursor to go to the next cell in that column, but one row lower (= moving down in the column). When I'm on the last row in the column, on enter the cursor must stay in the cell.

My grid already works OK, but I always has to use the down-arrow-key to go to the next cell... I like to make it better so that on enter the cursor automatic goes to the lower cell...

How can you do this in Visual Foxpro 6.0? Thanks for your help...

 

[rgbean]

In the KeyPress Event of your TextBoxes you'd could add the following code:

LPARAMETERS nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl
IF nKeyCode = 13 && Enter
KEYBOARD "{DNARROW}" PLAIN
NODEFAULT
RETURN
ENDIF
DODEFAULT(nKeyCode, nShiftAltCtrl)

Note: To handle your "last row" scenario, you'll need to add some code based on some other known information.

Rick

 

[chpicker]

Actually, I think the code rgbean provided will do just what you're looking for. Basically, the code intercepts an ENTER keypress and changes it to a DOWN keypress. If it is on the last row, pressing DOWN won't go anywhere, so it will be fine.

Another possibility would be to use the following command:

ON KEY LABEL ENTER keyboard "{DNARROW}"

This will cause FoxPro to treat ALL enter keypresses as if you had hit the DOWN arrow. Issue "ON KEY" to restore your the ENTER key to its previous functionality.