Catch all deletes

[JBirdieH]

I would like to catch any keystrokes relating to deletion of a record and send the user to an interactive q & a. This would probably be at the form level? Would you have to account for all varieties of keyphysical or is there a blanket that would work better? Thanks.

 

[NotAllThere]

To ensure that the user is restricted to entering and deleting data only through the form, I use buttons on the form to enter and exit edit mode (code on these also do validity checks on the data). I also trap "unwanted" keypresses in the keyphysical method on the form and use my own menus to control user menu access. If the user can open the table directly, (File/Open/Table) then he/she can do whatever they want. Sample code for form keyPhysical follows:

method keyPhysical(var eventInfo KeyEvent)
var
theKey String
endvar
if eventInfo.isPreFilter()
then
; This code executes for each object on the form.
theKey = eventInfo.vChar()
switch
case (theKey = "VK_F7&quot:
;stop user viewing table directly
disableDefault
case theKey = "VK_F8" :
;stop user entering design mode
disableDefault
case theKey = "VK_F9" :
;stop user entering/exiting edit mode
disableDefault
case theKey = "VK_F10" :
;only access menu via mouse
disableDefault
case (theKey = "VK_F11&quot or (theKey = "VK_F12&quot :
;stop the user using keys to navigate
disableDefault
case theKey = "VK_DELETE" :
if eventInfo.isControlKeyDown() then
disableDefault
endif
endswitch
else
; This code executes only for the form.
endif
endMethod

HTH PAdraig