KEYBOARD command idiosyncrasy

[Jerry4DOS]

Here I am, 11 years into my life's "FoxPro Experience," and I turned up another "undocumented feature" of FPD2.6a I hadn't encountered before. I checked our forum SEARCH, and couldn't find it discussed earlier.

You can't stuff the KEYBOARD with more than TWO "uparrow" or "dnarrow" commands (like you can with the other keys).

Try this, using any table with several fields and records. Run this code to load your function keys:

ON KEY LABEL F1 KEYBOARD REPLICATE("{uparrow}",5)
ON KEY LABEL F2 KEYBOARD REPLICATE("{dnarrow}",5)
ON KEY LABEL F3 KEYBOARD REPLICATE("{tab}",5)
ON KEY LABEL F4 KEYBOARD REPLICATE("{backtab}",5)

Jerry

 

[DSummZZZ]

Apparently this is true when browsing a table, but for other instances like in an edit window, it behaves properly.
But as is quite often the case with Fox, there is a way to get around it. Try this:
Record a macro using Shift+F10. When the dialog comes up, press say, Shift+F12. The macro will be named shift_f12.
Then in the command window, run this line of code:
ON KEY LABEL F12 PLAY MACRO shift_f12

Browse a table, and press F12.


-Dave S.-

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