Hi,
I am trying to enable my MacOS data entry people more keyboard
control of popupmenu's on my data entry screen.
I want to be able to control the selected row of a popup menu without
using the mouse. On windows, the popupmenu can getfocus but not on a
Mac, so I am currently trying various tricks to enable keyboard entry
into the popupmenu
I currently have an editfield next to each popup acting as a
controller for it's popupmenu brother. A key down key in the
editfield sets the listindex of the correspoding popupmenu to be +1.
This works ok-ish but it is a lot of work when you have a lot of
popup menus (There's > 400 fields in this particular screen hence the
need to make data entry as easy as possible).
I would like the user to see all the options and use the up/down
arrows of the popup menu rather than mouse.
Besides recommending, heaven forbid, that they get a PC, can anyone
suggest how I can cause the popup menu to automatically popup (say
when editfield gets focus?). I guess I am looking for the equivalent
.push method for a popupmenu, like the .push of a pushbutton.
Perhaps it should be .pop method ;-)
I am using 4.5.
5.5's new popdown menu isn't an option at this stage.
--
Cheers,
Dr Gerard Hammond
Bioinformatic Analyst
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
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