Convert ENTER to TAB in multiple browsers?

R

Robert Not Bob

Convert ENTER to TAB in multiple browsers?

I'm sure this topic has been around as long as browsers have, but I don't
see any resolutions in search engines...

I found some scripts that apparently work in IE - at least the following
one does on my XP / IE 6.0 - but I know for sure it doesn't work on
Firefox (2.x) on either my XP box or any of my Linux boxes, or in anything
on the Linux boxes - Konqueror, Netscape, whatever. Don't know about
Netscape on Windoze, or Safari, etc.

It's CLOSE to working in FF - instead of going to the NEXT field, it skips
the next and goes to the following field.

In Opera, it does nada, zip, zilch, gar nichts... ENTER goes straight to SUBMIT.

Is there any way to make it work for, say FF and Safari? Anyone?

Here's the script, from http://javascript.internet.com/forms/tab-key-emulation.html


<html>
<title>Dog Pounder</title>
<HEAD>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Original: Ronnie T. Moore -->
<!-- Web Site: The JavaScript Source -->

<!-- This script and many more are available free online at -->
<!-- The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com -->

<!-- Begin
nextfield = "box1"; // name of first box on page
netscape = "";
ver = navigator.appVersion; len = ver.length;
for(iln = 0; iln < len; iln++) if (ver.charAt(iln) == "(") break;
netscape = (ver.charAt(iln+1).toUpperCase() != "C");

function keyDown(DnEvents) { // handles keypress
// determines whether Netscape or Internet Explorer
k = (netscape) ? DnEvents.which : window.event.keyCode;
if (k == 13) { // enter key pressed
if (nextfield == 'done') return true; // submit, we finished all fields
else { // we're not done yet, send focus to next box
eval('document.yourform.' + nextfield + '.focus()');
return false;
}
}
}
document.onkeydown = keyDown; // work together to analyze keystrokes
if (netscape) document.captureEvents(Event.KEYDOWN|Event.KEYUP);
// End -->
</script>
</HEAD>

<!-- STEP TWO: Copy this code into the BODY of your HTML document -->

<BODY>

<center>
<form name=yourform>
Box 1: <input type=text name=box1 onFocus="nextfield ='box2';"><br>
Box 2: <input type=text name=box2 onFocus="nextfield ='box3';"><br>
Box 3: <input type=text name=box3 onFocus="nextfield ='box4';"><br>
Box 4: <input type=text name=box4 onFocus="nextfield ='done';"><br>
<input type=submit name=done value="Submit">
</form>
</center>


<p><center>
<font face="arial, helvetica" size="-2">Free JavaScripts provided<br>
by <a href="http://javascriptsource.com">The JavaScript Source</a></font>
</center><p>

</body>
<html>
 
R

RobG

Convert ENTER to TAB in multiple browsers?

Why? Browsers work the way they work, users get comfortable with
that. If they don't, they can change browsers to one that works the
way they want.
I'm sure this topic has been around as long as browsers have, but I don't
see any resolutions in search engines...

Because no one bothers to do it perhaps? :)

[...]
nextfield = "box1"; // name of first box on page
netscape = "";
ver = navigator.appVersion; len = ver.length;
for(iln = 0; iln < len; iln++) if (ver.charAt(iln) == "(") break;
netscape = (ver.charAt(iln+1).toUpperCase() != "C");

That has got to be the flakiest browser detection algorithm I've seen
yet and is an indicator of the quality of the rest of the script.

I expect a script that works would do something like detect the return
key onkeydown, move focus to the next not hidden element in the form's
elements collection and cancel the default action. But as soon as you
start to consider how to handle the submit and reset buttons, you'll
quickly see how dysfunction it becomes.

I wouldn't recommend trying it.
 
R

Robert Not Bob


Because it's what the users of a particular piece of code want.

Do you know how, or not? Reads like you don't, and wouldn't want to if
you did...so why'd you bother to respond?
 
R

Richard Maher

Hi Robert,
Is there any way to make it work for, say FF and Safari? Anyone?

Search for "enter(" in the following code. Not sure if it's what you want,
but it works for me with Firefox and Internet Explorer. One note of caution
is that FF lets/makes you handle a lot more keys (delete for example) than
IE.

HTH

Cheers Richard Maher

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<meta name="author" content="Richard Maher"/>
<meta name="description" content="VMS Queue lookup example"/>
<meta http-equiv="Page-Enter"
content="revealtrans(duration=1.5,transition=13)"/>

<head>

<style>

body
{
color: Black;
background-color: White;
font-family: Times;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
margin-left: 5px;
margin-right: 5px;
text-align: left;
}

select#jobList option
{
white-space: pre;
}

select#queList option
{
white-space: pre;
}

.header
{
color: Turquoise;
font-size: 22px;
font-weight: bold;
}

.credits
{
color: Turquoise;
font-family: Georgia;
}

.waiting
{
width: 100%;
text-align: right;
font-family: Georgia;
font-size: 150%;
font-weight: bold;
}

.greenScreen
{
color: Lime;
background-color: Black;
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
white-space: pre;
}

.revLeft
{
background-color: AliceBlue;
color: Black;
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
text-align: left;
}

.revRight
{
background-color: AliceBlue;
color: Black;
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
text-align: right;
}

.floater
{
position: absolute;
z-index: 1000;
visibility: hidden;
left: 83px;
top: 123px;
padding: 0px;
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
}

.sortPanel
{
background-color: AliceBlue;
color: blue;
border: thin ridge blue;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1000;
visibility: hidden;
left: 455px;
top: 242px;
width: 115px;
height: 170px;
margin: 5px;
padding: 0px;
}

.sortHead
{
text-align: center;
color: Black;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold;
}

.options
{
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
background-color: AliceBlue;
color: Black;
white-space: pre;
}

</style>

<script type="text/javascript" src="common.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

function msgField(name, offset, length)
{
this.name = name;
this.offset = offset;
this.length = length;
}

var field = new Array(5);
field[0] = new msgField("entryNumber", 0, 10);
field[1] = new msgField("jobName" , 11, 39);
field[2] = new msgField("jobStatus" , 51, 15);
field[3] = new msgField("queName" , 67, 31);
field[4] = new msgField("queType" , 99, 10);
field[5] = new msgField("queStatus" , 110, 10);

var msgGetInfo = "10";
var jobInfo = "11";
var msgQueName = "40";
var jobByQue = "60";
var queName = "41";
var eofInfo = "99";
var eofLen = 3;
var jobMsgLen = 115;
var queNameLen = 31;
var msgQue = "";
var lastMsgQue = "";
var spaceFill = " ";
var zeroFill = "0000000000";
var maxRows = "00000"; //Unlimited
var maxReadTime = 10000;
var waitInterval = 700;
var sortKey = 0;
var sortIndex = 0;
var optIndex = 0;
var strA = "";
var strB = "";
var alertMsg = "Error retrieving job entry information:\n";
var timeoutMsg = "Request timeout has expired.<br />" +
"Increase the timeout value if server is under load."

var rc;
var outPad;
var ok;
var msgEntry;
var intId;
var abortBackColor;
var sendBackColor;
var abortValue;
var cancelCount;
var closureType;
var target;
var waitCount;
var waitColors;
var waitText;
var bytesIn;
var queList;
var quePopUp;
var eventTarget;
var radioTarget;
var labelTarget;
var labels;
var labelIndex;
var sortBy;
var exitSort;
var selectClone;
var swapClone;
var evt;
var keyCode;

function load()
{
selectRef = document.getJobs.jobList;
selectClone = selectRef.cloneNode(true);
queList = document.queOptions.queList;
waitColors = new Array("blue","lime","yellow","orange","red");
waitText = document.getElementById("stallMsg");
quePopUp = document.getElementById("queInfo");
labels = document.getElementsByTagName("label");
sortBy = document.getElementById("sortBy");
exitSort = document.getElementById("r7");

try
{
chan = parent.cornucopiae.chan;
chan.setTimeout(maxReadTime);
document.getJobs.queName.focus();
}
catch(err)
{
return false;
}
}

function lockDown()
{

document.getJobs.send.disabled=true;
sendBackColor = document.getJobs.send.style.backgroundColor;
document.getJobs.send.style.backgroundColor="Silver";
document.getJobs.send.blur();

document.getJobs.queName.disabled=true;
document.getJobs.entryNumber.disabled=true;
document.getJobs.jobList.disabled=true;

abortValue=document.getJobs.reqAbort.value;
abortBackColor = document.getJobs.reqAbort.style.backgroundColor;
document.getJobs.reqAbort.style.backgroundColor="Red";
document.getJobs.reqAbort.disabled=false;

cancelCount = zeros;

return true;
}

function openUp()
{
document.getJobs.reqAbort.disabled=true;
document.getJobs.reqAbort.style.backgroundColor=abortBackColor;
document.getJobs.reqAbort.value=abortValue;

document.getJobs.send.style.backgroundColor=sendBackColor;
document.getJobs.send.disabled=false;
document.getJobs.queName.disabled=false;
document.getJobs.entryNumber.disabled=false;
if (selectRef.options.length > 1)
document.getJobs.jobList.disabled=false;

document.getJobs.queName.focus();

return true;
}

function sendOOB(OOBchar)
{
if (document.getJobs.reqAbort.disabled)
{
alert("Request already complete.");
return;
}

cancelCount++
chan.sendUrgentData(OOBchar);
document.getJobs.reqAbort.value="Aborts Sent " + String(cancelCount);
document.getJobs.reqAbort.blur();

return;
}

function enter(nextfield,e)
{
evt = e || window.event;

try
{
target = evt.srcElement.name;
}
catch (err)
{
target = target=evt.target.name;
}

if (evt.type == "keypress")
{
keyCode = evt.which || evt.keyCode;

if ((keyCode == 8) ||
(keyCode == 9) ||
(keyCode == 45) ||
(keyCode == 46) ||
(keyCode == 37) ||
(keyCode == 39))
return true;
else
if (keyCode == 13)
{
nextfield.focus();
return false;
}
else
{
if ((target == "entryNumber") &&
(keyCode < 48 || keyCode > 57))
return false;
else
return true;
}
}
}

function selectQue()
{
if ((queList.selectedIndex >= queList.length) ||
(queList.selectedIndex == -1))
{
document.getJobs.queName.focus();
return true;
}

document.getJobs.queName.value =
queList.options[queList.selectedIndex].text.rTrim();
document.getJobs.send.focus();

return true;
}

function queLookup()
{
msgQue = document.getJobs.queName.value.toUpperCase();
if (msgQue == lastMsgQue)
return true;

lastMsgQue = msgQue;
quePopUp.style.visibility="hidden";

if (msgQue.rTrim() == "")
return true;

queList.size = 2;
queList.length = zeros;

outPad = spaceFill.substring(0, (spaceFill.length - msgQue.length));
chan.sendMessage(msgQueName.concat(msgQue,outPad));

recType = recvAndGet(recTypeLen);
if (!recType)
return;

while (recType == queName)
{
if (chan.readMessage(queNameLen) == queNameLen)
msgQue = chan.getString(0,queNameLen);
else
return true;

queList.options[queList.length] = new Option (msgQue, msgQue);

recType = recvAndGet(recTypeLen);
}

if (recType == errorInfo)
{
if (chan.readMessage() < errLenLen)
reportError("Error receiving Error Length from server");

return true;
}

if (recType != eofInfo)
{
reportError("Invalid recType " + recType + " received from
server");
return true;
}

if (queList.length == zeros)
return true;

if (queList.length == 1 && lastMsgQue.rTrim() == msgQue.rTrim())
return true;

if (queList.length > 2)
if (queList.length < 7)
queList.size=queList.length;
else
queList.size=7;

queList.selectedIndex = -1;
quePopUp.style.visibility="visible";

return true;
}

function jobLookup()
{
msgQue = document.getJobs.queName.value.toUpperCase();
msgEntry = document.getJobs.entryNumber.value;
if (msgEntry.length > zeros && parseInt(msgEntry,10) == zeros)
msgEntry = "";

if (msgEntry.length != zeros && msgQue.rTrim() != "")
{
alert("Please enter a Queue Name or a Job Entry Number, but not
both.");
return true;
}

lockDown();

document.getJobs.recCount.value = 0;

outPad = "";
ok = true;
msgEntry = "";

selectRef.size = 1;
swapClone = selectClone.cloneNode(true);
selectRef.parentNode.replaceChild(swapClone, selectRef);
selectRef = document.getJobs.jobList;

if (msgQue.rTrim() == "")
{
msgEntry = document.getJobs.entryNumber.value;
outPad = zeroFill.substring(0, (zeroFill.length -
msgEntry.length));
chan.sendMessage(msgGetInfo.concat(outPad,msgEntry,maxRows));
}
else
{
outPad = spaceFill.substring(0, (spaceFill.length -
msgQue.length));
chan.sendMessage(jobByQue.concat(msgQue,outPad));
}

waitCount = 0
chan.setTimeout(waitInterval);
dclAST("getResponse()");

return true;
}

function getResponse()
{
bytesIn = chan.readMessage(recTypeLen);
if (bytesIn == 0)
{
if (waitCount == waitColors.length)
{
reportError(timeoutMsg);
return;
}
else
{
if (waitText.innerHTML == "")
{
waitText.style.color = waitColors[waitCount];
waitText.innerHTML = "Waiting. . .";
waitCount++
}
else
{
waitText.innerHTML = "";
}
dclAST("getResponse()");
return;
}
}

if (bytesIn != recTypeLen)
{
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 1");
return;
}

waitText.innerHTML = "";
chan.setTimeout(maxReadTime);

recType = chan.getString(0,recTypeLen);

if (recType == jobInfo)
{
rc = 1;
dclAST("processJobs()");
}
else
{
if (recType == errorInfo)
{
dclAST("processError()");
}
else
{
reportError("Unknown message type " + recType);
return;
}
}

return;
}

function processError()
{
if (chan.readMessage() < errLenLen)
{
reportError("Error receiving Error Length from server");
return;
}

errMsgLen = parseInt(chan.getString(0,errLenLen),10);
alert(alertMsg + chan.getString(errLenLen,errMsgLen));
openUp();

return;
}

function processJobs()
{
if (chan.readMessage(jobMsgLen) != jobMsgLen)
{
alert ("Error receiving Job Information from server");
return;
}

if (cancelCount == zeros)
{
document.getJobs.recCount.value = rc;

jobMsg = chan.getString(0,10) + "|" +
chan.getString(10,39) + "|" +
chan.getString(49,15) + "|" +
chan.getString(64,31) + "|" +
chan.getString(95,10) + "|" +
chan.getString(105,10);

selectRef.options[selectRef.options.length] = new Option (jobMsg,
jobMsg);

rc++;
if (rc < 6)
selectRef.size = rc;
}

if (chan.readMessage(recTypeLen) != recTypeLen)
{
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 2");
return;
}

recType = chan.getString(0,recTypeLen);
if (recType == jobInfo)
{
dclAST("processJobs()");
return;
}

if (selectRef.length != 1)
selectRef.selectedIndex = -1;

openUp();

if (recType != eofInfo)
{
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 3");
return;
}

if (chan.readMessage(eofLen) != eofLen)
{
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 4");
return;
}

closureType = chan.getString(0,eofLen);

if (closureType == "CAN" || cancelCount != zeros)
alert("Request curtailed\nby operator.");
else
if (closureType != "EOF")
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 5");

return;
}

function showDetails()
{
if (selectRef.selectedIndex == zeros)
{
selectRef.options[zeros].selected=false;
selectRef.selectedIndex = -1;
if(selectRef.length < 3)
alert("Nothing to Sort.")
else
{
sortBy.style.visibility="visible";
exitSort.checked=true;
exitSort.focus();
}
return false;
}

parent.entry_details.getReady();
parent.document.getElementById("main").rows="30px,0px,*";
return true;
}

function menuMove(e)
{
evt = e || window.event;

eventTarget = eventTarget=evt.srcElement || evt.currentTarget;

if (eventTarget.type == "radio")
{
radioTarget = eventTarget;
for (labelIndex = 0; labelIndex < labels.length; labelIndex++)
if (labels[labelIndex].htmlFor == radioTarget.id)
{
labelTarget=labels[labelIndex];
break;
}
}
else
{
labelTarget = eventTarget;
radioTarget = document.getElementById(labelTarget.htmlFor)
}

if (evt.type == "mouseover")
{
labelTarget.style.color = "turquoise";
radioTarget.checked = true;
}

if (evt.type == "mouseout")
labelTarget.style.color = "blue";

return true;
}

function sortIt(keyField)
{
var sortScratch = new Array();
sortScratch.length = selectRef.length - 1;

for (sortIndex=0; sortIndex<sortScratch.length; sortIndex++)
sortScratch[sortIndex] = selectRef.options[sortIndex + 1].value;

sortKey = keyField;
sortScratch.sort(colCompare);

optIndex = 1;
for (sortIndex in sortScratch)
{
selectRef.options[optIndex].value = sortScratch[sortIndex];
selectRef.options[optIndex].text = sortScratch[sortIndex];
optIndex++;
}

return;

}

function colCompare(a,b)
{
strA =
a.substr(field[sortKey].offset,field[sortKey].length).toUpperCase();
strB =
b.substr(field[sortKey].offset,field[sortKey].length).toUpperCase();

if (strA < strB)
return -1;

if (strA > strB)
return 1;

return zeros;

}

function hideQues()
{
if (quePopUp.style.visibility != "hidden")
quePopUp.style.visibility="hidden";

return;

}

</script>

</head>

<body onload="load()">

<br /><span class="header">Example Client for Tier3 DEMO Application
Server on VMS<br /></span>
<br /><hr><br />

<form name="getJobs">
<div style="font-size: 14px">

Queue Name:
<input
type="text"
class="revLeft"
style="text-transform: uppercase"
onkeypress="return enter(document.getJobs.entryNumber, event)"
onkeyup="return queLookup()"
name="queName"
maxlength=31
size=31
title="Enter the Queue Name [Wildcards '*' and '%' are
permitted]"
/>

Job Entry Number:
<input
type="text"
class="revRight"
onfocus="hideQues();"
onkeypress="return enter(document.getJobs.send, event)"
name="entryNumber"
maxlength=10
size=10
dir="rtl"
title="Enter the Job Entry Number [Default is All My Jobs]"
/>

<input
type="button"
style="background-color:Turquoise; color:Black;"
onfocus="hideQues();"
onclick="jobLookup()"
name="send"
value="Get Job Info."
title="Get results from Tier3 Server"
/>

Jobs Found:
<input
type="text"
class="revRight"
name="recCount"
readonly="readonly"
value="0"
size=5
title="Number of matching jobs found in last request"
/>

<input
type="button"
onclick="sendOOB(33);"
name="reqAbort"
value="Abort Request"
disabled="disabled"
title="Send an Abort request to the server"
/>
<br /><br />
</div>

<div style="height:90px; font-size: 14px;">
<select
name="jobList"
id="jobList"
disabled="disabled"
onfocus="hideQues();"
onclick="return showDetails()"
class="greenScreen">
<option
id="lovHdr"
style="color:Black; background-color:Turquoise;"
Entry Nbr-|Job Name-------------------------------|Job
Status-----|Queue Name---------------------|Queue Type|Status----</o
ption>
</select>
</div>
</form>

<div style="overflow:auto; height:180px;"><p>
This is an example of a browser-based, html and JavaScript,
client interacting with a VMS hosted Application Server in
a connection-oriented and context-rich Tier3 environment.<br /><br />

You would have noticed that, when this page was initially displayed,
you were immediately prompted for your VMS Username and Password.
Once authorization is successful your credentials, and an accompanying
Persona, are automatically made available to your 3GL User Action
Routines each time their Server Process is chosen to perform work on
behalf of the client. In this example, the user only gets to see those
Print and Batch jobs that they have privileges to view. You can find
the corresponding server code for this example (demo_uars.cob) in your
t3$examples directory.<br /><br />

Your Tier3 session and server connection are terminated when you change
web pages or refresh this page.</p></div>
<hr><br />
<span class="credits">
"Tier3" is a registered trademark of Tier3 Software Ltd<br />
"CornuCopiae" is a trademark of Richard Maher<br /></span>
<div class="waiting" id="stallMsg"></div>
<div
id="queInfo"
class="floater"
style="visibility: hidden"<form name="queOptions">
<select name="queList" class="options" onclick="return
selectQue()"></select>
</form>
</div>
<div
id="sortBy"
class="sortPanel"<form
name="sortMenu"
style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;"<div class="sortHead">Sort By</div>

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r1"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout ="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(0)"
/>

<label for="r1"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(0)"
Entry Number</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r2"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(1)"
/>

<label for="r2"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(1)"
Job Name</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r3"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(2)"
/>

<label for="r3"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(2)"
Job Status</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r4"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(3)"
/>

<label for="r4"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(3)"
Queue Name</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r5"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(4)"
/>

<label for="r5"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(4)"
Queue Type</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r6"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(5)"
/>

<label for="r6"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(5)"
Queue Status</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r7"
checked="checked"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onclick="document.getJobs.queName.focus()"
onblur='sortBy.style.visibility="hidden"'

/>
<label for="r7"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
Exit</label>

</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Robert Not Bob said:
Convert ENTER to TAB in multiple browsers?

I'm sure this topic has been around as long as browsers have, but I don't
see any resolutions in search engines...

I found some scripts that apparently work in IE - at least the following
one does on my XP / IE 6.0 - but I know for sure it doesn't work on
Firefox (2.x) on either my XP box or any of my Linux boxes, or in anything
on the Linux boxes - Konqueror, Netscape, whatever. Don't know about
Netscape on Windoze, or Safari, etc.

It's CLOSE to working in FF - instead of going to the NEXT field, it skips
the next and goes to the following field.

In Opera, it does nada, zip, zilch, gar nichts... ENTER goes straight to SUBMIT.

Is there any way to make it work for, say FF and Safari? Anyone?

Here's the script, from http://javascript.internet.com/forms/tab-key-emulation.html


<html>
<title>Dog Pounder</title>
<HEAD>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Original: Ronnie T. Moore -->
<!-- Web Site: The JavaScript Source -->

<!-- This script and many more are available free online at -->
<!-- The JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com -->

<!-- Begin
nextfield = "box1"; // name of first box on page
netscape = "";
ver = navigator.appVersion; len = ver.length;
for(iln = 0; iln < len; iln++) if (ver.charAt(iln) == "(") break;
netscape = (ver.charAt(iln+1).toUpperCase() != "C");

function keyDown(DnEvents) { // handles keypress
// determines whether Netscape or Internet Explorer
k = (netscape) ? DnEvents.which : window.event.keyCode;
if (k == 13) { // enter key pressed
if (nextfield == 'done') return true; // submit, we finished all fields
else { // we're not done yet, send focus to next box
eval('document.yourform.' + nextfield + '.focus()');
return false;
}
}
}
document.onkeydown = keyDown; // work together to analyze keystrokes
if (netscape) document.captureEvents(Event.KEYDOWN|Event.KEYUP);
// End -->
</script>
</HEAD>

<!-- STEP TWO: Copy this code into the BODY of your HTML ocument -->

<BODY>

<center>
<form name=yourform>
Box 1: <input type=text name=box1 onFocus="nextfield
='box2';"> said:
Box 2: <input type=text name=box2 onFocus="nextfield
='box3';"> said:
Box 3: <input type=text name=box3 onFocus="nextfield
='box4';"> said:
Box 4: <input type=text name=box4 onFocus="nextfield
='done';"> said:
<input type=submit name=done value="Submit">
</form>
</center>


<p><center>
<font face="arial, helvetica" size="-2">Free JavaScripts
 
R

Robert Not Bob

Hi Robert,


Search for "enter(" in the following code. Not sure if it's what you want,
but it works for me with Firefox and Internet Explorer. One note of
caution is that FF lets/makes you handle a lot more keys (delete for
example) than IE.

HTH

Cheers Richard Maher

Thanks, Richard! That's a lot of code - I'll fight my way through it
tomorrow and see how it works... I know that the users are mostly IE, but
I know for sure there are some FF and some Netscape, too, as well as at
least two Mac Safari users... If / WHen I get the code simplified to an
example like the one I'd found, I'll bring it back here.

Thanks again - Not Bob
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>

<meta name="author" content="Richard Maher"/> <meta name="description"
content="VMS Queue lookup example"/> <meta http-equiv="Page-Enter"
content="revealtrans(duration=1.5,transition=13)"/>

<head>

<style>

body
{
color: Black;
background-color: White;
font-family: Times;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
margin-left: 5px;
margin-right: 5px;
text-align: left;
}
}
select#jobList option
{
white-space: pre;
}
}
select#queList option
{
white-space: pre;
}
}
.header
{
color: Turquoise;
font-size: 22px;
font-weight: bold;
}
}
.credits
{
color: Turquoise;
font-family: Georgia;
}
}
.waiting
{
width: 100%;
text-align: right;
font-family: Georgia;
font-size: 150%;
font-weight: bold;
}
}
.greenScreen
{
color: Lime;
background-color: Black;
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
white-space: pre;
}
}
.revLeft
{
background-color: AliceBlue;
color: Black;
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
text-align: left;
}
}
.revRight
{
background-color: AliceBlue;
color: Black;
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
text-align: right;
}
}
.floater
{
position: absolute;
z-index: 1000;
visibility: hidden;
left: 83px;
top: 123px;
padding: 0px;
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
}
}
.sortPanel
{
background-color: AliceBlue;
color: blue;
border: thin ridge blue;
position: absolute;
z-index: 1000;
visibility: hidden;
left: 455px;
top: 242px;
width: 115px;
height: 170px;
margin: 5px;
padding: 0px;
}
}
.sortHead
{
text-align: center;
color: Black;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold;
}
}
.options
{
font-family: Fixed-Width, Monospace;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 14px;
background-color: AliceBlue;
color: Black;
white-space: pre;
}
}
</style>

<script type="text/javascript" src="common.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

function msgField(name, offset, length)
{
this.name = name;
this.offset = offset;
this.length = length;
}
}
var field = new Array(5);
field[0] = new msgField("entryNumber", 0, 10); field[1] = new
msgField("jobName" , 11, 39); field[2] = new msgField("jobStatus"
, 51, 15); field[3] = new msgField("queName" , 67, 31);
field[4] = new msgField("queType" , 99, 10); field[5] = new
msgField("queStatus" , 110, 10);

var msgGetInfo = "10";
var jobInfo = "11";
var msgQueName = "40";
var jobByQue = "60";
var queName = "41";
var eofInfo = "99";
var eofLen = 3;
var jobMsgLen = 115;
var queNameLen = 31;
var msgQue = "";
var lastMsgQue = "";
var spaceFill = " "; var zeroFill
= "0000000000";
var maxRows = "00000"; //Unlimited var maxReadTime = 10000;
var waitInterval = 700;
var sortKey = 0;
var sortIndex = 0;
var optIndex = 0;
var strA = "";
var strB = "";
var alertMsg = "Error retrieving job entry information:\n"; var
timeoutMsg = "Request timeout has expired.<br />" +
"Increase the timeout value if server is under
load."

var rc;
var outPad;
var ok;
var msgEntry;
var intId;
var abortBackColor;
var sendBackColor;
var abortValue;
var cancelCount;
var closureType;
var target;
var waitCount;
var waitColors;
var waitText;
var bytesIn;
var queList;
var quePopUp;
var eventTarget;
var radioTarget;
var labelTarget;
var labels;
var labelIndex;
var sortBy;
var exitSort;
var selectClone;
var swapClone;
var evt;
var keyCode;

function load()
{
selectRef = document.getJobs.jobList; selectClone =
selectRef.cloneNode(true); queList =
document.queOptions.queList; waitColors = new
Array("blue","lime","yellow","orange","red"); waitText =
document.getElementById("stallMsg"); quePopUp =
document.getElementById("queInfo"); labels =
document.getElementsByTagName("label"); sortBy =
document.getElementById("sortBy"); exitSort =
document.getElementById("r7");

try
{
chan = parent.cornucopiae.chan;
chan.setTimeout(maxReadTime);
document.getJobs.queName.focus();
}
catch(err)
{
return false;
}
}
}
function lockDown()
{

document.getJobs.send.disabled=true;
sendBackColor = document.getJobs.send.style.backgroundColor;
document.getJobs.send.style.backgroundColor="Silver";
document.getJobs.send.blur();

document.getJobs.queName.disabled=true;
document.getJobs.entryNumber.disabled=true;
document.getJobs.jobList.disabled=true;

abortValue=document.getJobs.reqAbort.value; abortBackColor =
document.getJobs.reqAbort.style.backgroundColor;
document.getJobs.reqAbort.style.backgroundColor="Red";
document.getJobs.reqAbort.disabled=false;

cancelCount = zeros;

return true;
}
}
function openUp()
{
document.getJobs.reqAbort.disabled=true;
document.getJobs.reqAbort.style.backgroundColor=abortBackColor;
document.getJobs.reqAbort.value=abortValue;

document.getJobs.send.style.backgroundColor=sendBackColor;
document.getJobs.send.disabled=false;
document.getJobs.queName.disabled=false;
document.getJobs.entryNumber.disabled=false; if
(selectRef.options.length > 1)
document.getJobs.jobList.disabled=false;

document.getJobs.queName.focus();

return true;
}
}
function sendOOB(OOBchar)
{
if (document.getJobs.reqAbort.disabled)
{
alert("Request already complete.");
return;
}
}
cancelCount++
chan.sendUrgentData(OOBchar);
document.getJobs.reqAbort.value="Aborts Sent " +
String(cancelCount); document.getJobs.reqAbort.blur();

return;
}
}
function enter(nextfield,e)
{
evt = e || window.event;

try
{
target = evt.srcElement.name;
}
catch (err)
{
target = target=evt.target.name;
}
}
if (evt.type == "keypress")
{
keyCode = evt.which || evt.keyCode;

if ((keyCode == 8) ||
(keyCode == 9) ||
(keyCode == 45) ||
(keyCode == 46) ||
(keyCode == 37) ||
(keyCode == 39))
return true;
else
if (keyCode == 13)
{
nextfield.focus();
return false;
}
else
{
if ((target == "entryNumber") &&
(keyCode < 48 || keyCode > 57))
return false;
else
return true;
}
}
}
}
function selectQue()
{
if ((queList.selectedIndex >= queList.length) ||
(queList.selectedIndex == -1))
{
document.getJobs.queName.focus();
return true;
}
}
document.getJobs.queName.value =
queList.options[queList.selectedIndex].text.rTrim();
document.getJobs.send.focus();

return true;
}
}
function queLookup()
{
msgQue = document.getJobs.queName.value.toUpperCase(); if (msgQue
== lastMsgQue)
return true;

lastMsgQue = msgQue;
quePopUp.style.visibility="hidden";

if (msgQue.rTrim() == "")
return true;

queList.size = 2;
queList.length = zeros;

outPad = spaceFill.substring(0, (spaceFill.length -
msgQue.length));
chan.sendMessage(msgQueName.concat(msgQue,outPad));

recType = recvAndGet(recTypeLen);
if (!recType)
return;

while (recType == queName)
{
if (chan.readMessage(queNameLen) == queNameLen)
msgQue = chan.getString(0,queNameLen);
else
return true;

queList.options[queList.length] = new Option (msgQue, msgQue);

recType = recvAndGet(recTypeLen);
}
}
if (recType == errorInfo)
{
if (chan.readMessage() < errLenLen)
reportError("Error receiving Error Length from server");

return true;
}
}
if (recType != eofInfo)
{
reportError("Invalid recType " + recType + " received from
server");
return true;
}
}
if (queList.length == zeros)
return true;

if (queList.length == 1 && lastMsgQue.rTrim() == msgQue.rTrim())
return true;

if (queList.length > 2)
if (queList.length < 7)
queList.size=queList.length;
else
queList.size=7;

queList.selectedIndex = -1;
quePopUp.style.visibility="visible";

return true;
}
}
function jobLookup()
{
msgQue = document.getJobs.queName.value.toUpperCase(); msgEntry =
document.getJobs.entryNumber.value; if (msgEntry.length > zeros &&
parseInt(msgEntry,10) == zeros)
msgEntry = "";

if (msgEntry.length != zeros && msgQue.rTrim() != "")
{
alert("Please enter a Queue Name or a Job Entry Number, but not
both.");
return true;
}
}
lockDown();

document.getJobs.recCount.value = 0;

outPad = "";
ok = true;
msgEntry = "";

selectRef.size = 1;
swapClone = selectClone.cloneNode(true);
selectRef.parentNode.replaceChild(swapClone, selectRef); selectRef
= document.getJobs.jobList;

if (msgQue.rTrim() == "")
{
msgEntry = document.getJobs.entryNumber.value; outPad =
zeroFill.substring(0, (zeroFill.length -
msgEntry.length));
chan.sendMessage(msgGetInfo.concat(outPad,msgEntry,maxRows));
}
else
{
outPad = spaceFill.substring(0, (spaceFill.length -
msgQue.length));
chan.sendMessage(jobByQue.concat(msgQue,outPad));
}
}
waitCount = 0
chan.setTimeout(waitInterval);
dclAST("getResponse()");

return true;
}
}
function getResponse()
{
bytesIn = chan.readMessage(recTypeLen); if (bytesIn == 0)
{
if (waitCount == waitColors.length)
{
reportError(timeoutMsg);
return;
}
else
{
if (waitText.innerHTML == "")
{
waitText.style.color = waitColors[waitCount];
waitText.innerHTML = "Waiting. . .";
waitCount++
}
else
{
waitText.innerHTML = "";
}
dclAST("getResponse()");
return;
}
}
}
if (bytesIn != recTypeLen)
{
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 1"); return;
}
}
waitText.innerHTML = "";
chan.setTimeout(maxReadTime);

recType = chan.getString(0,recTypeLen);

if (recType == jobInfo)
{
rc = 1;
dclAST("processJobs()");
}
else
{
if (recType == errorInfo)
{
dclAST("processError()");
}
else
{
reportError("Unknown message type " + recType); return;
}
}
}
return;
}
}
function processError()
{
if (chan.readMessage() < errLenLen)
{
reportError("Error receiving Error Length from server"); return;
}
}
errMsgLen = parseInt(chan.getString(0,errLenLen),10);
alert(alertMsg + chan.getString(errLenLen,errMsgLen)); openUp();

return;
}
}
function processJobs()
{
if (chan.readMessage(jobMsgLen) != jobMsgLen) {
alert ("Error receiving Job Information from server"); return;
}
}
if (cancelCount == zeros)
{
document.getJobs.recCount.value = rc;

jobMsg = chan.getString(0,10) + "|" +
chan.getString(10,39) + "|" +
chan.getString(49,15) + "|" +
chan.getString(64,31) + "|" +
chan.getString(95,10) + "|" +
chan.getString(105,10);

selectRef.options[selectRef.options.length] = new Option
(jobMsg,
jobMsg);

rc++;
if (rc < 6)
selectRef.size = rc;
}
}
if (chan.readMessage(recTypeLen) != recTypeLen) {
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 2"); return;
}
}
recType = chan.getString(0,recTypeLen); if (recType == jobInfo)
{
dclAST("processJobs()");
return;
}
}
if (selectRef.length != 1)
selectRef.selectedIndex = -1;

openUp();

if (recType != eofInfo)
{
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 3"); return;
}
}
if (chan.readMessage(eofLen) != eofLen) {
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 4"); return;
}
}
closureType = chan.getString(0,eofLen);

if (closureType == "CAN" || cancelCount != zeros)
alert("Request curtailed\nby operator.");
else
if (closureType != "EOF")
reportError("Error receiving reply from server 5");

return;
}
}
function showDetails()
{
if (selectRef.selectedIndex == zeros)
{
selectRef.options[zeros].selected=false; selectRef.selectedIndex
= -1;
if(selectRef.length < 3)
alert("Nothing to Sort.")
else
{
sortBy.style.visibility="visible";
exitSort.checked=true;
exitSort.focus();
}
return false;
}
}
parent.entry_details.getReady();
parent.document.getElementById("main").rows="30px,0px,*"; return
true;
}
}
function menuMove(e)
{
evt = e || window.event;

eventTarget = eventTarget=evt.srcElement || evt.currentTarget;

if (eventTarget.type == "radio")
{
radioTarget = eventTarget;
for (labelIndex = 0; labelIndex < labels.length; labelIndex++)
if (labels[labelIndex].htmlFor == radioTarget.id)
{
labelTarget=labels[labelIndex];
break;
}
}
else
{
labelTarget = eventTarget;
radioTarget = document.getElementById(labelTarget.htmlFor)
}
}
if (evt.type == "mouseover")
{
labelTarget.style.color = "turquoise"; radioTarget.checked =
true;
}
}
if (evt.type == "mouseout")
labelTarget.style.color = "blue";

return true;
}
}
function sortIt(keyField)
{
var sortScratch = new Array();
sortScratch.length = selectRef.length - 1;

for (sortIndex=0; sortIndex<sortScratch.length; sortIndex++)
sortScratch[sortIndex] = selectRef.options[sortIndex + 1].value;

sortKey = keyField;
sortScratch.sort(colCompare);

optIndex = 1;
for (sortIndex in sortScratch)
{
selectRef.options[optIndex].value = sortScratch[sortIndex];
selectRef.options[optIndex].text = sortScratch[sortIndex];
optIndex++;
}
}
return;


}
function colCompare(a,b)
{
strA =
a.substr(field[sortKey].offset,field[sortKey].length).toUpperCase();
strB =
b.substr(field[sortKey].offset,field[sortKey].length).toUpperCase();

if (strA < strB)
return -1;

if (strA > strB)
return 1;

return zeros;


}
function hideQues()
{
if (quePopUp.style.visibility != "hidden")
quePopUp.style.visibility="hidden";

return;


}
</script>

</head>

<body onload="load()">

<br /><span class="header">Example Client for Tier3 DEMO Application
Server on VMS<br /></span>
<br /><hr><br />

<form name="getJobs">
<div style="font-size: 14px">

Queue Name:
<input
type="text"
class="revLeft"
style="text-transform: uppercase"
onkeypress="return enter(document.getJobs.entryNumber, event)"
onkeyup="return queLookup()"
name="queName"
maxlength=31
size=31
title="Enter the Queue Name [Wildcards '*' and '%' are
permitted]"
/>

Job Entry Number:
<input
type="text"
class="revRight"
onfocus="hideQues();"
onkeypress="return enter(document.getJobs.send, event)"
name="entryNumber"
maxlength=10
size=10
dir="rtl"
title="Enter the Job Entry Number [Default is All My Jobs]"
/>

<input
type="button"
style="background-color:Turquoise; color:Black;"
onfocus="hideQues();"
onclick="jobLookup()"
name="send"
value="Get Job Info."
title="Get results from Tier3 Server"
/>

Jobs Found:
<input
type="text"
class="revRight"
name="recCount"
readonly="readonly"
value="0"
size=5
title="Number of matching jobs found in last request"
/>

<input
type="button"
onclick="sendOOB(33);"
name="reqAbort"
value="Abort Request"
disabled="disabled"
title="Send an Abort request to the server"
/>
<br /><br />
</div>

<div style="height:90px; font-size: 14px;">
<select
name="jobList"
id="jobList"
disabled="disabled"
onfocus="hideQues();"
onclick="return showDetails()"
class="greenScreen">
<option
id="lovHdr"
style="color:Black; background-color:Turquoise;"
Entry Nbr-|Job Name-------------------------------|Job
Status-----|Queue Name---------------------|Queue Type|Status----</o
ption>
</select>
</div>
</form>

<div style="overflow:auto; height:180px;"><p> This is an example of a
browser-based, html and JavaScript, client interacting with a VMS
hosted Application Server in a connection-oriented and context-rich
Tier3 environment.<br /><br />

You would have noticed that, when this page was initially displayed,
you were immediately prompted for your VMS Username and Password. Once
authorization is successful your credentials, and an accompanying
Persona, are automatically made available to your 3GL User Action
Routines each time their Server Process is chosen to perform work on
behalf of the client. In this example, the user only gets to see those
Print and Batch jobs that they have privileges to view. You can find
the corresponding server code for this example (demo_uars.cob) in your
t3$examples directory.<br /><br />

Your Tier3 session and server connection are terminated when you
change web pages or refresh this page.</p></div> <hr><br />
<span class="credits">
"Tier3" is a registered trademark of Tier3 Software Ltd<br />
"CornuCopiae" is a trademark of Richard Maher<br /></span> <div
class="waiting" id="stallMsg"></div> <div
id="queInfo"
class="floater"
style="visibility: hidden"<form name="queOptions">
<select name="queList" class="options" onclick="return
selectQue()"></select>
</form>
</div>
<div
id="sortBy"
class="sortPanel"<form
name="sortMenu"
style="font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px;"<div class="sortHead">Sort By</div>

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r1"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout ="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(0)"
/>

<label for="r1"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(0)"
Entry Number</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r2"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(1)"
/>

<label for="r2"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(1)"
Job Name</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r3"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(2)"
/>

<label for="r3"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(2)"
Job Status</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r4"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(3)"
/>

<label for="r4"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(3)"
Queue Name</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r5"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(4)"
/>

<label for="r5"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(4)"
Queue Type</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r6"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(5)"
/>

<label for="r6"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onmousedown="sortIt(5)"
Queue Status</label><br />

<input
type="radio"
name="sortKey"
id="r7"
checked="checked"
class="sortButton"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
onclick="document.getJobs.queName.focus()"
onblur='sortBy.style.visibility="hidden"'

/>
<label for="r7"
onmouseover="menuMove(event)"
onmouseout="menuMove(event)"
Exit</label>

</form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Robert Not Bob said:
Convert ENTER to TAB in multiple browsers?

I'm sure this topic has been around as long as browsers have, but I
don't see any resolutions in search engines...

I found some scripts that apparently work in IE - at least the following
one does on my XP / IE 6.0 - but I know for sure it doesn't work on
Firefox (2.x) on either my XP box or any of my Linux boxes, or in
anything on the Linux boxes - Konqueror, Netscape, whatever. Don't know
about Netscape on Windoze, or Safari, etc.

It's CLOSE to working in FF - instead of going to the NEXT field, it
skips the next and goes to the following field.

In Opera, it does nada, zip, zilch, gar nichts... ENTER goes straight to SUBMIT.

Is there any way to make it work for, say FF and Safari? Anyone?

Here's the script, from http://javascript.internet.com/forms/tab-key-emulation.html


<html>
<title>Dog Pounder</title>
<HEAD>

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Original: Ronnie T. Moore -->
<!-- Web Site: The JavaScript Source -->

<!-- This script and many more are available free online at --> <!-- The
JavaScript Source!! http://javascript.internet.com -->

<!-- Begin
nextfield = "box1"; // name of first box on page netscape = "";
ver = navigator.appVersion; len = ver.length; for(iln = 0; iln < len;
iln++) if (ver.charAt(iln) == "(") break; netscape =
(ver.charAt(iln+1).toUpperCase() != "C");

function keyDown(DnEvents) { // handles keypress // determines whether
Netscape or Internet Explorer k = (netscape) ? DnEvents.which :
window.event.keyCode; if (k == 13) { // enter key pressed
if (nextfield == 'done') return true; // submit, we finished all fields
else { // we're not done yet, send focus to next box
eval('document.yourform.' + nextfield + '.focus()'); return false;
}
}
}
document.onkeydown = keyDown; // work together to analyze keystrokes
if (netscape)
document.captureEvents(Event.KEYDOWN|Event.KEYUP); // End -->
</script>
</HEAD>

<!-- STEP TWO: Copy this code into the BODY of your HTML ocument -->

<BODY>

<center>
<form name=yourform>
Box 1: <input type=text name=box1 onFocus="nextfield
='box2';"> said:
Box 2: <input type=text name=box2 onFocus="nextfield
='box3';"> said:
Box 3: <input type=text name=box3 onFocus="nextfield
='box4';"> said:
Box 4: <input type=text name=box4 onFocus="nextfield
='done';"> said:
<input type=submit name=done value="Submit"> </form>
</center>


<p><center>
<font face="arial, helvetica" size="-2">Free JavaScripts
provided said:
by <a href="http://javascriptsource.com">The JavaScript
Source said:
</center><p>

</body>
<html>
 
R

Richard Maher

Hi Robert,
Thanks, Richard! That's a lot of code - I'll fight my way through it
tomorrow and see how it works... I know that the users are mostly IE, but
I know for sure there are some FF and some Netscape, too, as well as at
least two Mac Safari users... If / WHen I get the code simplified to an
example like the one I'd found, I'll bring it back here.

Thanks again - Not Bob
<<<

I only just found your reply on Google groups as it didn't come up in my
other news reader for some reason.

Yes, it is a lot of code but, as I said, you're only interested in the ENTER
function bits (One function def and two field event invocations) I just left
them in-situ for context/completeness. (And I quite like the code :)

BTW. When you see "target = target=evt.target.name;", it could be a cunning
plan to track the footprint of anyone copying the code, or it could be a
typo :) Should just be "target = evt.target.name;". Funny how it seems to
make no difference?

Cheers Richard Maher

PS. My code was only designed as a humble example of talking to a server via
Java sockets/JavaScript/HTML and as such is not intended a WEB development
showcase or to contain an exhaustive list of keycode handling (for example
"Why delete/backspace does what it does when a button has focus?".) Having
said that, I think you could do a lot worse as a starting point. As far as
Safari and Opera go, please let me know if the code doesn't work.
 

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