At 12:02 PM 2/11/2005, Peter Smithson wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>I can't find the bit in the documentation which explains what I'm
>seeing.  I'm sure it's in there as the VPLUS documentation from HP seems
>to be excellent!
>
>I have a required field in my form.  I use VSETERROR on it so that it's
>highlighted.  I call VREADFIELDS and then VFIELDEDITS and check the
>numerrs in the com area.
>
>If I press ENTER then numerrs is set.  If I press a function key,
>numerrs isn't.
>
>I can only guess that VFIELDEDITS isn't ran if a function key is
>pressed?  But I'm not sure about that as numerrs is set if I don't have
>the VSETERROR.

The screen buffer is not read if a function key is pressed, only if enter
is pressed. If the user pressed a function key, and you want to know the
contents of the screen buffer, you have to force a read with VGETBUFFER.

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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
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Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
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