DCL tab sorting

[J-Rocks]

Hello guys,

I have a dialog with four edit_box and when I press TAB from the keyboard the cursor moves from one to another automatically.

How can I rearrange the tab sorting between these attributes to the order I want ?

Thanks in advance.

[Moshe-A]

@J-Rocks hi,

i do not know if you can control tab stop order but a disabled tile is not tab stop even  is_tab_stop = true;

 or you can set is_tab_stop = false; [but not at run time (in autolisp)] or recreate the dcl at run time.

Moshe

[paullimapa]

tab stop order typically is from top down (row) and left to right (column)

shift+tab stop order typically is reverse of the above

[J-Rocks]

Yeah I know that, but I want to set my own tab order although that I read about all dcl tab functions from help document and could not find a working one which suit my needs.

[paullimapa]

unfortunately, DCL programming does not offer an attribute to adjust the tab stop order

[Sea-Haven]

Not sure, not tested but I have when you select a radio button it saves a value and exits the dcl. So maybe can do same by click on a tile and set the one you want as next.

(action_tile rb1  (strcat "(setq but "  (rtos x 2 0) ")" "(set_tile rb2 "1")"))

[komondormrex]

if you need the tab going your way to move focus, why you do not place your edit_boxes that way in dialog code? unless you want various ways depending on some data got. 

[J-Rocks]

Hi,

Because I have lots of edit_boxes involved and I wanted to fill out the info in different order, though everything works well.

Thanks.

[komondormrex]

well, in that case you may look at a possibility to fill out the info in other generated on the fly subdialogs which will follow your certain order for each request.

[J-Rocks]

I am not sure that I got your idea but I think it seems promising, can you shade some light on the procedure or post testing codes for me to get it right ?

[komondormrex]

this is a rough outline of what i meant

[scot-65]

J-Rocks,

This is a late response to your reply - hope you will investigate my idea.

Create a dialog with 2 columns.

The first column populate with radio buttons listing all the tab variations you require.

Inside the second column create a row [container] with text_part and an edit_box inside.

Repeat 3 additional times to finish the second column.

Assign a key="Rad0" to the radio_column (a key to a radio_button is mandatory as well).

Assign a key to each row, to each text_part, and to each edit_box.

Assign fix_width=true to each row (or fixed_width to this second column).

Assign a width to the text_part and to the edit_box.

Action_tile each radio_button to change the text_part value (set_tile "Tex1" "Label #1")...

Where a edit box is not needed for a particular variation, (mode_tile "Row4" 1).

The radio button action can also automatically tab to the first edit box (mode_tile "Edi1" 2).

OK button gather together "Rad0", "Edi1", "Edi2", "Edi3", and "Edi4" as a LIST.

Done_dialog and process the input.

Use the first position (nth 0) of the LIST to direct which order for which value (cond...

Scot-65

[john.uhden]

@J-Rocks ,

I think that most of the responses are true, BUT

You can put most any code in an action_tile line, including mode_tiling the peferred next tile.

Just remember that tile action must be input as strings, so that any string within the quoted action must be escape-quoted, as in...

(action_tile "A1" "(mode_tile \"A2\" 2)") ; focus on tile

Of course you can also do things before changing tiles, as in...

(action_tile "A1" "(do_this)(do_that $key)(mode_tile \"A2\" 2)") ; focus on tile

There re lots of ways to orchestrate more complex lyrics.

[scot-65]

John,
Edit boxes are a different animal.
action tile works when entering the tile, but not while inside or when leaving.

[john.uhden]

@scot-65 

Hi, Scot!

I was pretty sure that with edit_boxes, the action is taken when you press 'Enter.'

So if you include focusing on a different tile as the last part of the action, then the focus will change (as long as it's not the same tile 😁).

But what do I know?

[john.uhden]

@Sea-Haven ,

Don't forget to escape those quotes (except for the two outer ones).

[komondormrex]

actually it does, on the exiting. 

callback reason Code 2—Edit Boxes. 

The user has exited the edit box—by pressing the TAB key or by choosing a different tile—but has not made a final selection. If this is the reason for an edit box callback, your application should not update the value of the associated variable, but should check the validity of the value in the edit box.

@john.uhden and code 1 when hitting <enter>. 

[J-Rocks]

Thank you for your clear narrative solution, will try it as soon as possible.