Jumping between main form and sub form 1

[spruceni]

I have a form which consists of a main form and a sub form. With help, I now have the form loading with the focus on the first field of the sub form. This is great.

This form will be used via a screenreader and shortcut keys are so important. It is easy enough to move round the sub form with the tab key but there seems to be no way to jump onto the main form and move round it. Tab just keeps going round and round the subform. I can do it using the cursor and then the tab key. Neither does it seem possible to jump from the main form back to the sub form.

I have looked at the help on Keyboard Shortcuts but they do not work or make the form jump to the next record, which I do not want it to do. (Ctrl Tab)

To enter the subform from the preceding field in the main form TAB

To enter the subform from the following field in the main form SHIFT+TAB

To exit the subform and move to the next field in the master form or next record CTRL+TAB

To exit the subform and move to the previous field in the main form or previous record CTRL+SHIFT+TAB


I have thought of generating a control on the main form which, on using "Alt J" ( J for jump) would jump between the main form to the first field of the sub form and like a flipflop the next time it is used the focus jumps to the first field on the main form. But I can't seem to get this to work.

Any thoughts?

 

[Remou]

You could use an autokeys macro and set focus.

 

[spruceni]

Hi

How would I detect if the control that has the current focus is on the mainform or the subform?

I want to write code that would do the following

If mainform has focus then
make subform have focus
else
make mainform have focus
endif

Regards
Alan

 

[PHV]

Have a look at the ActiveControl and PreviousControl properties of the Screen object.

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
FAQ181-2886

 

[Remou]

Microsoft has a funtion that returns the active form or active subform name:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/210210/en-us

If the subform is contained in a tab control, there will be some problems with the code, but this can be fixed.

 

[spruceni]

Thanks guys for your help.