Re: XForms: order of visitation

Orlando Andico (orly@gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph)
Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:31:14 +0800 (GMT)

To subscribers of the xforms list from Orlando Andico <orly@gibson.eee.upd.edu.ph> :

On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Gary Huckabay wrote:

> To subscribers of the xforms list from Gary Huckabay <gx@bear.sirinet.net> :
>
> > from Gary Huckabay <gx@bear.sirinet.net> :
> > >
> > > If you have a number of input boxes, is there a simple way to change the
> > > order in which the cursor visits the boxes (via the tab key) other than
> >
> > There is no easy way to do this. One way or another, the order in which
> > the input fields get added to the form has to be re-arranged. Using
> > cut&paste from within fdesign perhaps is the only way to do it without
> > spliting hair.
>
> I guess I didn't make myself clear. How do you control which object is
> visited first? Is it the newest object? The oldest object? Is it
> determined by physical positioning?
>
> It seems that I can take a form with many objects, delete a few, add a
> few, and then the visitation order isn't what I expect.
>
> Gary
>

What I do in such a case is edit the source file which is produced. It's
fairly easy to go through, then you just cut-and-paste to get the order
you want (objects added first get visited first).

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