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Yes now it works perfect
many thanks Tony Mountifield

//Tony

"Tony Mountifield"  wrote in message news:kno0jp$lj$1@softins.clara.co.uk...

In article <knnu36$mnl$1@dont-email.me>,
Tony <tony.johansson@inport.com> wrote:
> The principle is this when I tab on field with id=fartygID I need to
> validate this field against table AFARTYG and this is done asynchronously
> and this can't be changed because of the
> structure of the code.
>
> If the data.opExist == "False" in function Validate I know that the 
> entered
> data is invalid and I want the cursor
> to stay in the same field.
> I have tried to use $("#fartygID").focus(); to position the cursor in the
> fartygID field
> but this does not work.
>
> It would be easy if I could return the value of data.opExist but this 
> seems
> to be impossible because of that I use asynchronous call.
>
> Is it anyone that have any suggestion how I can place the cursor on field
> with id=fartygID
> if the data.opExist == "False" ?

Try using setTimeout(function() { $("#fartygID").focus(); }, 10);

The 10 is a number of milliseconds to delay before doing the focus. Adjust
as required.

Cheers
Tony


> //Here is the function that validate. check_generic is called 
> asynchronously
> function Validate(ctrlID, ipTable, ipKey, ipKeyValue)
>       {
>           var ipDescriptionField = "";
>
>           check_generic(ipTable, ipKey, ipDescriptionField, ipKeyValue,
> function (data, textStatus, jqXHR)
>           {
>               IsOkMessageShort(data.dsError);
>
>               if (data.opExist == "False")
>               {
>                    $("#fartygID").focus(); //Invalid value don't leave
> fartygID
>               }
>           });
>       }
>
>
> function TabOn_FartygInDialog(e)
>        {
>            var TABKEY = 9;
>            if (e.keyCode == TABKEY)
>            {
>                Validate("fartygID", "AFARTYG", "FARTNR", "",
> $('#fartygID').val());
>
> //              this.value += "    ";
> //              if (e.preventDefault)
> //              {
> //                  e.preventDefault();
> //              }
> //              return false;
>             }
>        }
>
> //Tony
>


-- 
Tony Mountifield
Work: tony@softins.co.uk - http://www.softins.co.uk
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I have a problem "Tony" <tony.johansson@inport.com> - 2013-05-24 16:43 +0200
  Re: I have a problem tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield) - 2013-05-24 15:22 +0000
    Re: I have a problem "Tony" <tony.johansson@inport.com> - 2013-05-24 17:45 +0200
  Re: I have a problem "Tony" <tony.johansson@inport.com> - 2013-05-24 17:29 +0200
  Re: I have a problem Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2013-05-24 22:14 +0000
    Re: I have a problem Christoph Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> - 2013-05-25 00:51 +0200
      Re: I have a problem Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2013-05-25 00:09 +0100

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