SET EDITFIELD

SET EDITFIELD

Class

Screen Forms

Purpose

Change the field editing operation.

Syntax

SET EDITFIELD ON | OFF | (<expL>)

See Also

APPEND, CHANGE, CREATE SCREEN, EDIT, MODIFY SCREEN, EDITFIELD(), FILETYPE(), FMT(), INDEXEXT(), READEXIT(), READINSERT(), SET CLIPPER, SET CLIPPER5, SET COMPATIBLE, SET FILECASE, SET FILETYPE, SET FORMAT, SET INDEXEXT, SET MEMOEXT, SET PCEDIT, SET PCEXACT, SET PCFILTER, SET PCGRAPHICS, SET PCKEYS, SET PCLOCKING, SET PCPICTURE, SET PCSAYS, SET PCUNIQUE, DB_FOXPLUSBUGS, DB_FOXPROKEYS, DB_SAMBA

Description

A synonym of the EDITFIELD() function, this command enables or disables dBASE compatible use of the [CURSOR RIGHT] key for editing of textual fields on forms. When EDITFIELD is ON, characters initially typed over a field overwrite only those characters shown, and on pressing the [RETURN] key the remainder of the field is included as user input. If EDITFIELD is set OFF, only what is typed into the field is saved. The default setting for EDITFIELD is OFF.

Example

set editfield on
use accounts
set form to customers

Products

Recital Terminal Developer