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Hi,

how can I give an Enter-hotkey to a formattedfield in a gridheader-cell?

Background: I use a gridheader row as a column-wise filter. The user should enter a search pattern and press enter instead of tab to next field (flush).

Kind regards,
Joachim

I found it: tabonenter

But it leaves the field, as "tab"onenter mentions.
Is it possible without leaving the focus? Or is there a parameter that indicates the last pressd key?

...yes, TABONENTER this is one possibility (because then the flush is executed...).

Another one would have been to use the normal hot-key-management. Assign a POPUPMENU in which one of the menu items has "Enter" as hot key. This possibility would be the one to choose if you did ask for a different hotkey than "Enter" to trigger the server roundtrip.

Kind regards! Björn

Hi Björn,

are You sure that a popup menuitem works, when the focus is in a field?

Kind regards,

Joachim

...it ONLY works if the focus is in the field ;-)

Code:

 ...
     FIELD POPUPMENU="XXXXX"... ACTIONLISTENER="..."
 ...
 POPUPMENU ID="XXXXX"
     MENUITEM  COMMAND="enter" HOTKEY="10"

So here the focus is required in the FIELD. The ACTIONLISTENER of the FIELD is called with Event BaseActionEventPopupMenuItem, in which the name of the command ("enter") is passed.

Kind regards! - Björn

PS: hope this does not confuse, because your tabonenter-way is correct, too!

Thank You!

Yes it works. I forgot to set the attribute popupmenu="VALIDATEPOPUP". Only setting hotkey in a menuitem isn't sufficient.