What version? Long time ago to whom (Appeon, SAP, Sybase)?

Hi Glenn;

   FWIW: AutoSize Height and AutoSize Width features were added to PB for reporting purposes only (in the good old PowerSoft days). No columns or computed fields were ever meant to get focus when using "AutoSize xxxxx". In other words, everything in that type of DWO should be set to "Read Only" (aka Tab Positions = Zero). Thus, no cursor position would be possible.

  FYI: You could try using the ObjectAtPointer() command and see what happens.

Regards ... Chris

Hi Roland - This exists in the current 2017 build and has existed as a problem under 12.6 and much much earlier.

I reported this to SAP , nothing happened with it.

I reported this to Appeon in early 2017 when they had just started taking over support of the product and spoke with Armeen about it and similar datawindow issues.  I wrote up the details to the the Appeon PB Product Manager in early March of 2017.

There are numerous design flaws with datawindows that inhibit the creation of modern looking applications - among them no In field prompts, lack of Null Support for Dropdowns, graphical support for border types in column labels that match column 3d lowered style, dynamic (as you type) field resizing, etc...

My understanding was that some of these were going to be addressed in the future, but not in the 2017 Long Term Maintenance release.

Most of these can be accommodated by somewhat tedious coding - if not perfectly, however this issue with the system losing track of cursor position for trapping clicked on repositioned objects is a particular PITA for us.

Have you tried DataWindow control's GetObjectAtPointer( ) returning string = object + TAB + row?

I picked below from a "fluent API" DW class I use in demo apps. 

HTH /Michael

// PUBLIC FUNCTION GetCurrentRowObject( REF long row, REF string name ): dw_base
long   tabPos
string objectRow

objectRow = this.GetObjectAtPointer( )
tabPos    = Pos(objectRow, '~t')

row = Long(Mid(objectRow, (tabPos + 1))
name  =   Left(objectRow, (tabPos - 1))
return this // Fluent API