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Resolved Rich Text fields

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  1. Tracy Lamb
    Tracy Lamb
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  3. Friday, 31 May 2024 16:06 PM UTC

I have some Rich Text fields on a few datawindow objects.  The issue I'm having is that the user cannot tab out of the RichText field.  When the user types TAB, it inserts a tab character (not really a big deal).  More importantly, when the cursor is in the RichText , none of the short-cut keys I have coded for the datawindow control works.  I use Function keys for things like changing tabs and finishing forms.

Any ideas on how to at least get the function keys to work when the cursor is in a RichText field? Using PB2022 R3.

~~~Tracy

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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  1. Friday, 31 May 2024 16:57 PM UTC
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Hi Tracy;

  That has been a behaviour (good or bad) since PB added the RTE feature. FWIW what I do is show the App user a "read only preview" of the column. Then they double-click or click on a CB with "..." that opens a Response dialogue that has the RTE / RT DW in it.. Then when the RichText editing is complete, they just close the Response window.. Thus, no tabbing confusion. Food for thought.

Regards .. Chris

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Tracy Lamb
  1. Tracy Lamb
  2. Friday, 31 May 2024 18:24 PM UTC
Thanks Chris... I'll try that. My customer can test it today.
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Tracy Lamb
  1. Tracy Lamb
  2. Saturday, 1 June 2024 15:39 PM UTC
This seems to work, but the RichText field doesn't seem to "word wrap" on the first line. After the first line is entered, seems to work well.
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Chris Pollach @Appeon
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  2. Tuesday, 4 June 2024 18:03 PM UTC
Hi Tracy;

I tested this using my STD OrderEntry demo app that has a RTE Control for emailing but it does not seem to have this issue.

Do you have a simple test case that replicates this issue?

It could just be the way / timing that the RTE control is initialized. It's hard to say from the info we have.

Regards .. Chris
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