-----Original Message----- From: Bob Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, February 26, 1999 2:53 AM Subject: Re: POST >At 4:00 PM -0800 2/24/99, Uli Foerster wrote: >>And how do i activate an editable table field programmatically without >>calling FldGrabFocus? TblGrabFocus won't do the complete job, as it doesn't >>activate the blinking insertion point cursor. > >It doesn't look like there's any good way to activate an editable field >programmatically -- at least, there's no obvious API for that. > >Unlike with fields, FrmSetFocus will not call TblGrabFocus for you. Also, >as you noted, TblGrabFocus won't turn on the insertion point. The only >place the code to do everything exists is in the event handler. ...you >might try faking up a pen event, but that's pretty hacky. I'd prefer to stick to FldGrabFocus in this case, especially as using it apparently does no harm (at least to me in the past year of programming, testing and using with OS 2.0 & 3.0). Or is there some special reason for PalmComputing to discourage it's utilization in apps? Maybe discontinuation of availability in future OS versions or so? Uli Foerster > >Sorry... > > --Bob > > >
