Enter Key acts like Tab Key

[no1tmorrow]

Here is my issue. We got in a new laptop that has the number pad on the right. When I am in a field and number lock is off and I hit the enter key it works great. If I turn on number lock and hit the enter key it will tab to the next field. I wish it to ad another line. I looked at the behavior and only tab is selected for moving to the next field.

Thanks

Thom

[IdealData]

Notwithstanding the fact that the ENTER key behaves differently with numlock on/off the standard behaviour for FMP is to use the enter key as an exit field. The RETURN key can be used to introduce new lines in a text field - unless you override that behaviour by setting RETURN key to perform a TAB.

In my experience the behaviour of some keys on different manufacturers PCs is inconsistent, although this could also be a system setting.

[no1tmorrow]

On this laptop there is two Enter Keys and No Return Keys. Both enter keys work fine as long as the num lock is off. I have checked all the system settings I can find. The weird thing is that Notepad and Wordpad work fine with and without the numlock key. It is only Filemaker.

[IdealData]

On this laptop there is two Enter Keys and No Return Keys

That's a strange setup.

[LaRetta]

That's a strange setup.

Nope, what is [return] on Mac (in main keyboard section) is called [enter] on Windows (except for some very old, funky windows keyboards). The number pad has an [enter] as well.

Hey Thom, you have two posts about this issue now and I'm still a bit unclear. Can you tell me exactly what your User is doing? It sounds like they are entering a series of numbers into a text field and want to produce carriage returns between each number by hitting [enter] on the num pad since their fingers are on that pad anyway. Is this right?

As an aside, when I first started using FM, I posted about this very inconsistency (return vs. enter) and here is a great explanation from Ray Cologon (in fact the entire thread was enlightening and I received great input from many people on the issue).

I believe that we can use script triggers with vs. 10 to accomplish what you wish (once we know what that is). But I truly would probably suggest creating records (which can be easily automated so the functionality is identical to the User). Dumping multiple 'anythings' into a single field is usually problematic.

[no1tmorrow]

Here is what I hope to be a better explanation.

He uses the number pad keys (with the number lock on) to enter a series of numbers in misc. fields for inventory. But every few records there is a need to add text to a field that is tall enough to support 4 lines of text. So he clicks in there and hits the "enter key" to generate a new line to put some info on its own line and it tabs out of the field (when numlock is on). If the numlock is off and the presses the "enter key" the cursor will carriage return and allow him to type on a new line.

Hope this explanation is a little clearer.

Thanks so much for all of your help.

Thom

[comment]

I'd suggest you find out exactly what the enter key does when numlock is on. A script triggered OnObjectKeystroke (or OnLayoutKeystroke) and showing Code ( Get ( TriggerKeystroke ) ) could be used for this.