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Assigning tab order to controls

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March 05, 2007, 01:44 PM
cbassett
Assigning tab order to controls
Web focus version 524. Working in developer studio - resource layout. I've created an entry screen for report selection criteria to be entered into. I need to change the tab order that the cursor follows from field to field on the form. In the help documentation it says to go to the "tab order dialog box" and change the line-up order in the dialog box. My problem is that I can't find the "tab order dialog box" when I am in developer studio. Does anyone know where I need to look to find this dialog box?Help. Thanks.
March 05, 2007, 01:57 PM
Francis Mariani
I took a quick look at my DevStudio 5.3.4 documentation, and, as far as I can tell, this is a function of FrontPage and not DevStudio. I would code that manually, but then, who knows if the DevStudio GUI will be able to open the file again.


Francis


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March 05, 2007, 02:17 PM
cbassett
Francis - Thanks for the response. How would I go about coding it manually? Could you supply an example? Thanks, Craig
March 05, 2007, 02:33 PM
Francis Mariani
Craig,

This should be of help:

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutorials/forms/article.php/3479201

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/tabbing.html


Francis


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March 05, 2007, 03:19 PM
cbassett
Francis - Thank you for the links. It worked perfectly. Craig
March 05, 2007, 03:28 PM
<JJI>
Hmmm, I thought that this is possible in the HTML-painter. But then again I'm already working with WF 7.1.4. I believe you can set the TABINDEX in the properties of the object in that release. I'll have to check that...

In the release you're working with it cannot be done by the GUI. You can follow the advice of Francis and code it manually. However, if you open your html page again in the GUI, the code you had put in manually will be removed! So if you want to change something in your html page, by using the GUI, remember that you'll have to recode the tabindexes.

Hope this helps,
March 05, 2007, 03:59 PM
cbassett
tabindex worked. Thanks