Script that is equivalent to clicking on a field?

[kennedy]

If I make a field a button, then it'll do the button command rather than enter the field like normal. Is there any way to make it do *both* enter the field *and* perform the script?

If not, can you write a generic (not field-specific) script that will behave precisely equivalent when performed by the field button, as if the field was not a button and you clicked on it?

Why do I ask? Because, I want to write such a script but then add a check for the Shift key and if so do one added thing. But otherwise, I want it to behave just like you had clicked on a normal non-button field.

More specifically, I want to do:

# Enter field like normal (this part I need help on)

Go to Field under mouse

# If shift, display help on field

If (Mod(Status(CurrentModifierKeys), 2))

SetField("G::HelpText", GetField("HELP_" & Status(CurrentFieldName)))

Endif

If I can figure out how to do either of the above, then I can write just one script and use it with all fields. Otherwise, I must write a "Help" script for each field. Ick.

Any other way to get that?

[ldebondt]

May be way off base...but what about using a Case statement to determine which "Help" to use??? This would be only one script that could be used on all fields.

[kennedy]

Such a 'Case' would change the latter half... but that half already works as I have it... its that first line that I don't know what to do with... and without that you wouldn't have the data to drive the Case anyway (you wouldn't know what field you're clicking on).

[HazMatt]

I'm working on a similar problem myself.

You can create your script, and simply attach that script to the field on your layout. One of the first steps of the script should be a Go to Field function, which would make it appear as if you simply entered the field the regular way.

I don't believe there is a way to generically assign field names in this fashion, but I could be wrong.

[kennedy]

Right... I know how to do it if I write a separate script for each field that does an explicit Go to Field "Foo"... but I want to do the same on many fields and would prefer to write just one script. I can easily get the value of the Current Field, without naming it explicitly... but I can't set it (other thread) and I can't Go To it (this thread).

I'd rather not have a copy-n-paste script for every darn field in every darn file.

Brian