Moving cursor to the end of text item in Oracle Forms

[thebelf]

I have a text item of which I want to move the cursor to the end--similar to what the 'end' keypress will accomplish when typing in a text item.

Is there any ideas of how to either program a keypress of the 'end' key or move the cursor to the end of the text item?

 

[pani2304]

Place the following code within a when-new-item-instance trigger on the
item(s) you wish to disable highlighting:

DECLARE
v_handle pls_integer;
BEGIN
win_api_shell.sendkeys(V_HANDLE,'{end}',FALSE);
END;

The above code will result in no highlighting occurring and the cursor will be
placed on the first character of the item. If you wish the cursor to appear at
the start of the item, replace the word ‘end’ to ‘home’. For more information,
please refer to the d2kwutil documentation.

Note that this solution will only work on windows in a client server environment.
For a web solution you will have to create a java bean that will perform the
necessary functionality.

Thanks to OTN

 

[thebelf]

Thank you pani2304. It took me a while to get it to work--to find and attach the library and such. But it does work and I want to thank you for your response.

thanks,

thebelf

 

[Guest_imported]

Does this work only for single line text items - I've got a multi-line text item that I'd like to achieve similar results with a multi-line text item - but even with the necessary trigger code added it doesn't appear to work - still get the nasty highlighting - I'm also guessing that the sending the 'END' key would only get me to the end of the current line, rather than to the end of the entire piece of text......

.. any ideas...?

 

[ShaneKDev]

Apologies - this now seems to be working reasonably well in my form now that I've set the 'Keep Cursor Position' of the multi-line text item to YES.