Combo-Box Return Capture

[MrMoo]

Hello,

I am pretty new to Progress, and have been trying to learn by getting my hands dirty. I have been basically taking some old code and modifying it to understand what it is doing. I have taken a program and modified it slightly to incorporate a combo box. I hard coded in the option at this point but in the future will pull from a table. Anyways, I found that if I set the combo box as the last option on my form before the Output and Batch ID fields (which I believe come from wbrp01.i) I hit enter and the combo-box does nothing, so after lookign around on here I found out how to capture the Enter/return on my combo-box but now I am not sure how to send the enter command back to the frame so that I will arrive at the Output field. I can hit 'F1' and arrive at the Output field from the combo-box and I suppose I could ask end users in the future to hit F1 but I don't feel that is the best solution and in no way helps me grow in progress. I thought maybe I could use SendKey or SendMessage to the frame or form to overcome this when the user hits enter from the combo-box but have not found any good explanations of how to use SendMessage, I can supply code if needed but decided not to at this point because I really only need an explanation of how SendMessage works and what it's inputs should be.

 

[joey.jeremiah]

Hello,

I am pretty new to Progress, and have been trying to learn by getting my hands dirty. I have been basically taking some old code and modifying it to understand what it is doing. I have taken a program and modified it slightly to incorporate a combo box. I hard coded in the option at this point but in the future will pull from a table. Anyways, I found that if I set the combo box as the last option on my form before the Output and Batch ID fields (which I believe come from wbrp01.i) I hit enter and the combo-box does nothing, so after lookign around on here I found out how to capture the Enter/return on my combo-box but now I am not sure how to send the enter command back to the frame so that I will arrive at the Output field. I can hit 'F1' and arrive at the Output field from the combo-box and I suppose I could ask end users in the future to hit F1 but I don't feel that is the best solution and in no way helps me grow in progress. I thought maybe I could use SendKey or SendMessage to the frame or form to overcome this when the user hits enter from the combo-box but have not found any good explanations of how to use SendMessage, I can supply code if needed but decided not to at this point because I really only need an explanation of how SendMessage works and what it's inputs should be.

hi MrMoo,

take a look at the apply statement in your editor help.

for example -

/* added behavior */
 
on "return" of cCombo /* in <some frame> */ do:
 
    apply "go" /* to <some widget> */ .
 
end.

now that you're starting to get the hang of it i recommend having a look at the relevant chapters in the programming handbook. and feel free to ask any questions. hth

 

[MrMoo]

Hey Joey,

Thanks alot for the Apply "Go" to Widget it worked like a charm, in all of the documentation I read it didn't give a good example of how to use GO and nothing I saw used 'Apply "Go"'. I have a couple of manuals here that I have been looking through to understand the table relations, the syntax, etc. Something I can't easily find examples in the book but then I started looking around on here and I found quite a bit of information.

Thanks again,

MrMoo

hi MrMoo,

take a look at the apply statement in your editor help.

for example -

/* added behavior */
 
on "return" of cCombo /* in <some frame> */ do:
 
    apply "go" /* to <some widget> */ .
 
end.

now that you're starting to get the hang of it i recommend having a look at the relevant chapters in the programming handbook. and feel free to ask any questions. hth