Clearing items upon hitting "Enter Query"

I have a detail block with 5 fields in each record. There are five non-database items on the form to display the current record in this detail block. Upon moving the cursor to a different record in the block, the new record's fields are displayed in these non-database items.
What is required is that upon hitting "enter query" on this detail block, these non-database item fields become cleared also.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Ammar

this approach is not recommended as I think that these built-ins cause problems on some platforms (the go_block built-in)Never heard of such problems. If thisis so, then no forms-application would run on that platform, for forms also uses GO_BLOCK for master-details-relationships.
The easiest way to achieve your functionality (without any coding) would be to do the following:
Delete your second datablock with the non-database-items.
Duplicate the items in the databaseblock you want to show in a detail-area.
Set No. of tems displayed to 1 on these items.
Move the items in the layout to the desired position.
Set the poperty "Synchronize with" for each item so that it matches the item it should get the value from.
Thats all.

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I'm sorry for not making myself clear; I'll give it another go:
The problem is that, if I enter '<abc' in a form field in enter-query mode (so during creation of the "example record"), forms immediately interprets the < as 'smaller than' and does some obscure things with it (my guess: converting to a where clause, but since I'm using a non db field, this actually does nothing), and finishes by erasing the field contents (in the example record). In the pre-query trigger, I can no longer get the '<abc' and store it. I want one of the following:
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