Newbie - Default Button behavior

I am trying to use HTML db to create a new application that will run on LYNX enabled scanners. When the user scans an item into a textbox there is a carriage return that is entered at the end.
I would like to do one of two things -
1) On the CR move to the next Text Item or
2) On CR fire the only button on the page. Kind of like default button behavior in Forms or other PL's.
Any hints that you could give me would be very helpful.

Can I automatically go to another page within the application? If so how and where.
I need to send an onchange from the text field then do I need to create a process to move to the next page?? I am a complete newbie to this so I have no clue. For an example lets say that I have Page1 and Page2 with Text1 on Page1 and Text2 on Page2. Here is the code that I am starting to put in the HTML Table Cell Attributes:
onchange = 'javascript.dosubmit()'
Now what do I need to do to change to page 2? Does it need to be a process? and if so what code do I need to put in it and where?
This is for a Proof of Concept project, we are just trying to see if we can use HTML DB to create RF Scanner application.
Thanks for your initial reply.

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I just realize that the default button behavior, i.e. fill out form and press enter without clicking on the actual button, does not work if one or more input form elements are in a melting group. This is a bug, right? I'm using CE7.1 SP5.
Regards,
Kevin

Hi Dharmi,
I define a button as default, fill out the inputfields and press enter on the last one. As soon as I put this one in a melting group and press enter, the action of the default button is not triggered anymore. I can press enter in another field which is not in a melting group and the form is submitted correctly.
I just noticed that if the button is in a melting group (with or without an input field) it doesn't work either.
Can you reproduce this behavior?
Best regards,
Kevin

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In a JDialog, if I add components and set one to be the default button, plus
use the Windows L&F, I expect the Windows L&F behavior, that is, as long
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tab to another component, the desired default button should be visually marked (darker edge)
and an Enter should activate it.
In Plugin's JRE 1.3.1, this is not the case. The default button is reset to the last button that had
the keyboard focus.
In a JVM 1.2.2, the same code produced the expected result!
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Found a solution myself, which at least works for windows l&f:
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Up to last week, the DVD has been working as expected in the simulator, in DVD Player (from the Video_TS folder and from a formatted disc), and in several set top players. Yesterday, though, in DVD Player from a formatted disc, the menus appear with no buttons visibly defaulted. The menu still behaves, though, as if the default button was selected (ie., if pressing "enter" activates the default button, and pressing an arrow button sends the selected state in the designated direction.) Each video asset returns to its menu with another default button, and these behave in the same way.
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Aaron:
I would try deleting all PAR and MPEG folders that DVDSP created during your authoring (inside the folders where your source files live) and make a clean build without reusing any of the previous VIDEO_TS folders. Probably some file is corrupted. If you want a FCP analogy, is like deleting your render files!
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OutlineField and the Default Button

Hello all,
We are currently using the Forte 3.0.G.2. I have recently come
across the situation where I am unable to understand the behavior of the
default button. The situation is this:
Whenever I am including the Outline Field as one of the widgets in
any of my windows that particular window will not respond to the default
button. I am attaching the pex file so you can run the test windows and see
the problem.
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known/unknown bug?
<<DefaultBtn.pex>>
Thanks in advance.
Kamran Shafi
Systems Engineer
EDS Medi-Cal XIX
Phone: (916) 636-1093
Email: [email protected]

Hi Kamran!
What happens is that when the focus is on outline fields, the enter key
fires a doubleclick event and ignores the default button. So you need to
capture the doubleclick event and do whatever you want your button to do.
Here's a quote from Forte support
"Unfortunately, this is a documentation issue. The IsDefaultButton only
works when focus is on a simple DataField, because in all of the complex
fields, including TextField, TextEditField, TreeView and ListView as well
as OutlineField, the Enter key has a separate and defined action. On
Tree/ListViews and OutlineFields that is DoubleClick.
You COULD catch the DoubleClick on the OutlineField and post a click event
on the default button, however I'd encourage caution with that, since this
could cause some unexpected behavior if someone were counting on the Enter
(or a mouse double-click) to behave in our standard way."
Andrew Small
Enterprise Distributed Solutions National Practice
BORN Information Services
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-----Original Message-----
From: Shafi, Kamran [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 12:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: OutlineField and the Default Button
Hello all,
We are currently using the Forte 3.0.G.2. I have recently come
across the situation where I am unable to understand the behavior of the
default button. The situation is this:
Whenever I am including the Outline Field as one of the widgets in
any of my windows that particular window will not respond to the default
button. I am attaching the pex file so you can run the test windows and see
the problem.
Can someone please tell me if I am doing something wrong or is this a
known/unknown bug?
<<DefaultBtn.pex>>
Thanks in advance.
Kamran Shafi
Systems Engineer
EDS Medi-Cal XIX
Phone: (916) 636-1093
Email: [email protected]
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Default focus behavior in Swing

I have a JTabbedPane wherein every tab has a variety of fields, including buttons, text areas, text fields, tables, and so on. I wanted to tweak the default focus behavior such that the first text field or the first text area has the focus.
I used requestFocusInWindow() to set the focus on the first text field I get. This, however, was being overriden at a later stage (I am working on a vast code) and the first component inside a tab is getting the focus.
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I used requestFocusInWindow() to set the focus on the first text field I get. The requestFocusInWindow() method only works when the GUI is already visible. So I would suggest that you add a ChangeListener to the tabbed pane and add your code to set the focus every time the tab is changed.
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Hi guys,
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Client:
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When I run a form that opens an alert-window with a default-button (button that has the focus), it sometimes happens, that not the default-button, but another button is activated by default.
I have to repeat:
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Ok... here is what I see:
1. Create a form with an alert and set button 2 as the default
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3. Open any other app (Notepad, Explorer, etc) and move focus to that app
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Snap mouse pointer to default button doesn't work

Dear Community,
I own a W520 with W7professional. My mouse is the ThinkPad bluetooth Laser Mouse.
In the mouse properties window, I've activated the "Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box" option but unfortunately it seems not working.
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hey calza_mc,
try uninstalling the mouse drivers and reinstall it.
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Pointer does not move to the default button in the dialog box

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Set default Button and provide a KeyEvent to a component with focus !!!

What is to do ???
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Default button in BOV should always be #1

I have a number of Tracks with button overlay in a subtitle stream and Button Highlight activated (cyan/yellow marker).
The buttons are used to change audio stream during playback.
From a menu with 6 buttons I select a Track:
Button 1 = Track 1
Button 2 = Track 2
and so on.
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Track 1 > Button 1 selected
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Track 3 > Button 3 selected
etc.
Is it possible to always select button #1 when starting to play a Track, no matter which menu button was used?
As it is now, the user gets confused, since the Track is setup to play audio stream 1 in a pre-script (and this works fine).
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Message was edited by: Niklas Wikman

Problem solved. Double-click on the subtitle in the Track and set the Default button in the Button tab in the PI.

How to bring mouse cursor to the default button of a dialog, like in windows

Anybody know how to achieve this in LV?
Please see the attached screenshot.
- Partha
LabVIEW - Wires that catch bugs!
Attachments:
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Dear partha,
1) You can be able to trace out the location of the button
2) You can be able to move the cursor to that location
3) You can be able to automatically generate a click on that button
Use user32.dll to achieve all this. when u use it in CLN(Call Library Node), u can c functions 4 that.
Try and ask if further help needed!!!!!
Thanks,
Mathan

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Default Buttons

Hi,
I've got a simple application that needs a custom "search" dialog.
I've created a subclass of JDialog and it comes up just fine...
Basically I have a JTextField for them to put in the search, a few checkboxes for the options, and two buttons at the bottom of the dialog. The buttons are named "find first" and "find next."
I've seen in many programs that when a dialog comes up and has several buttons, i.e. "yes"/"no", then often it will have one of them selected for you and if you hit [enter] it'll just activate that one. I would like to do this to my "find next" button, but am not sure how to do so.
How do I make my "find next" button be the default for the dialog?
Right now, I have an ActionListener set up on the text field so that if a user hits [enter] in the search box, the "find next" is activated. I think that this isn't the right way to go, though, since the text box has to be focused.
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