NO text box focus

Is there anyway I can make it so that none of the text boxes
on my slide have the focus when it is loaded; i.e. no blinking
cursor anywhere?
I know how to force the cursor into a specific box, but
couldn't find how to remove the cursor until a user clicked.
Thanks.

Hi WestatMSB and welcome to our community from me too!!
Hi to you too Rick, hope you are keeping well.
I am going to do the long shaky limb tango here and suggest
that instead of using all the tech stuff, to simply make a copy of
the slide with the text boxes on, remove all the text boxes and
place a click box at the point where you would want the user to
start the inputs. User clicks on the box, slide show moves on and
the only change seen is that a cursor starts flashing in the box
that you have specified.
Yes, No? Please post back as I am really curious about
this!!

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The documentation is pretty clear on this: There can be only one
element on the whole desktop that has keyboard focus:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969768%28v=vs.110%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396.
There is logical focus and there is keyboard focus. There can be multiple elements that have logical focus in an application but only a single element can have keyboard focus. Please refer to the link above for details.
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Using JDEV 11.1.1.4 I have a problem with tabbing from one textbox to another textbox in IE. Both text boxes have autoSubmit=true and to reproduce the problem it's like so:
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Hi,
I have small problem , i have a text box in form , which is get validated at server side in servlet , if it found some thing wrong then it throws exception , i want that when an exception is thrown it should set focus for that perticular text box. so what should i write to perform such a activity.

Get hold of the element ID in the servlet (and keep the code conventions) and print it out to some Javascript function which does a focus during the onload.
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Hi,
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          the first value to the first text box, the second text box should get focus
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I got it working
          Thanks
          Madhu
          m holur <[email protected]> wrote in message
          news:3c1f42c7$[email protected]..
          > Hi,
          >
          > It needs a java script, I am having onsumbit focus should be on the
          second
          > text box, but it is not working. I need to know what java script I should
          > use?
          >
          > Thanks
          > Madhu
          > Nils Winkler <[email protected]> wrote in message
          > news:[email protected]..
          > > This sounds like you need to use JavaScript...
          > >
          > > Nils
          > >
          > > m holur wrote:
          > > >
          > > > Hi,
          > > >
          > > > In my jsp page I have a form witho two text fields i.e input
          > type="text"
          > > > These two text fields get the values from scanning. Since scanning
          > > > generates an event enter(it is going to submit the form), so after I
          > scan
          > > > the first value to the first text box, the second text box should get
          > focus
          > > > and after the ticket is scanned to the 2nd text box it should submit
          the
          > > > form and the focus should return to the
          > > > 2nd text box and not the first one.
          > > >
          > > > Thanks
          > > > Madhu
          > >
          > > --
          > > ============================
          > > [email protected]
          >
          >

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a text box to catch the primary key from report link when it is clicked
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box and then click some where else to bring values in page data entry form......
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bundles of thanks for reply. i m going to elaborate.
1. My page no is 3.
2. Hidden Item name is P3_EDIT_ACTIVITY_ID
3. Data entry form, hidden item and the report are on the same page.
4. on the edit link of report, i have used following settings.
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     Item 1   P3_EDIT_ACTIVITY_ID         Value #ACTIVITY_ID#
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Next i wrote Dynamic action which fires on the change event of P3_EDIT_ACTIVITY_ID and run PL/SQL code with in it which is as follows
declare
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That was intended to be a rhetorical question. So what you really want is if the field is not blank, that there should at least be some minimum number of characters. What is the minimum number that you want to enforce? Youd probably want to use a custom validation script for this, but what exactly do you want to happen if the user only enters three characters but the minimum you want is four? Should the three characters that were entered be rejected altogether, or should the focus just be set back to the field so the user can enter more, or something else?
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Something to check.
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We are simulating a mainframe system where the user enters multiple values, then presses enter. The client wants the simulation to replicate the system as closely as possible, and therefore we would like the user to Tab between the fields. After the last field is complete, the user should press Enter to move forward.
I can't get the text boxes to validate upon exit/lose focus...
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Hello,
I thought you wanted one Advanced action in which you will check the entries in all the TEB's (stored in user variables)? Do you think the 'focus lost' event is a good idea to trigger that since you are not sure that it will happen? And if you use the Submit from the 'last' TEB (that can be doubled as a shortcut), this means that you are imposing the sequence, not, you will have to be sure that this one will be the last TEB to be entered? Or do you want an advanced action that will be triggered by all 'focus lost' events and by all the Submit's?
What do you mean exactly by multiple custom scripts? Perhaps my lack of knowledge of English is puzzling me? You can trigger only one advanced action with an event, but this action can have a multitude of condtional actions, an unlimited sequence of standard actions and even combinations of standard and conditional actions (as I have been describing in the articles I did mention). If you are thinking about something else, please try to explain by giving more details.
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