Can I prevent user from using scroll wheel on mouse to change the record in layout mode?

[Alan M]

I tried searching for this but came up empty so I appologize if this topic has been discussed already.

Is there a way to disable a users mouse wheel to "scroll" through the records in layout mode?

I can see that it would be very easy to accidentally change the record during data entry.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

[Ano Nimus]

If you put the script step

Show/Hide Status Area [Lock; Hide]

in the script you use to navigate to that layout, that should have the desired effect.

[Alan M]

That works!

I had the status area set to hide but not locked.

I knew it had to be something simple like that.

Thanks for the help!

[Alisun]

I had this same question! When you hide/lock the Status area, however, you can no longer see how many records you have, how many in a found set, etc.

Is there a way to lock *ONLY* the scroll funtion??

Alisun

[Alan M]

Alisun,

you can mimick the status area by making a couple of buttons and attach scripts to each. The script is simply "go to record/request/page" and specify next for one button and previous for the other. Then to see what record you're on, make a text field by the buttons that reads something like "Record @@ of found".

The "@@" will show the number of the current record and the "found" is a merged field of a calculation field. The calculation is simply -get (FoundCount)- where the result is a number and make sure to check "do not store calculation results".

When finished it might look something like: << Record @@ of found >> in layout mode, but in browse it will read: << Record 14 of 321 >>.

Hope this helps.

-alan