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From: "Mel Smith" <med_cutout_syntel@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: onkeydown and onkeyup
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:49:21 -0700
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Gene said:

>     The particular use case addressed by my <Enter> filtering is
> people accustomed to pressing <Enter> to terminate an input.  I do not
> want that to result in a form submit.

    Neither do I.  My user want the <Enter> key to move to (what we both 
consider to be) the next logical input field.  As an example, in *my* case I 
have a vertical column of phone numbers and email addresses, that she will 
frequently be entering/modifying.  She should move up/down thru these fields 
so as not to drive herself 'bananas' moving her hand off/on the mouse to 
click to change focus.

>     Your code appears to be just control focus management.  (I could
> be missing something.)  I have saved it in case I need to revisit the
> area, but I need more than that.  Some of my keyboard event handling
> is for control values.  (I have some neat code for date entry.  Well,
> I think it is neat.)

    That set of code is meant to allow the user to move logically up and 
down and sideways thru the input fields in a quick, efficient manner (using 
<tab>,<shift-tab>, <up arrow>, <down arrow>, <home>, <end>, etc

    To submit she *must* deliberately focus (using her mouse)  on the 
<Validate/Submit> button -- where I go into action examining/validating the 
complete set of input fields. and using my Red/Yellow/Green backgrounds to 
praise or chastise her :))


-Mel