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vrf De-Activating Spacebar

Question asked by tdllc01 on Feb 11, 2002
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Bill,

Thanks!  This will be extremely useful, and much easier to control.

I, too, wish the "Assign" checkbox was unchecked by default.  That's bitten
me on several occasions.

George Tyrrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "OSSMANN,BILL (A-hsgAndover,ex1)" <bill_ossmann@hsgmed.com>
To: <vrf@lvld.agilent.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: RE: vrf De-Activating Spacebar


> George,
>
> I have done this in the past by creating a user function that pops up a
> panel off screen with a single control that executes immediately. Just
call
> the function in the top of the thread that activates your controls. See
the
> attached example. Of course, also make sure that your controls all have
> "Assign to Enter key" and "Assign to Esc key" unchecked. (I really wish
this
> was the default.)
>
> Regards,
> Bill Ossmann
> --
> bill_ossmann@hsgmed.com
> Philips Ultrasound
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Tyrrell [mailto:tdllc01@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 11:05 AM
> To: vrf@lvld.agilent.com
> Subject: vrf De-Activating Spacebar
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone know of an elegant way to deactivate the spacebar focus on a
> panel?
>
> I use a panel with multiple renamed OK buttons to start various threads.
> Some of those buttons are present to abort tests or return a complex
vacuum
> system to a default safe condition while in the middle of another thread.
I
> want to force the operator to mouse-click rather than accidently hit the
> spacebar key and abort a  good test that has been running for over 14
hours.
>
> My present technique has been to create a dummy OK button when first
> entering the user function/object with a thread going nowhere and hiding
> that OK button underneath one of the other icons on the panel .  So far
that
> works, but seems to be a workaround rather than an elegant solution.
>
> I am presently using VEE 5.01 in NT4.0 for this customer.
>
> Any ideas would be welcome.
>
> George Tyrrell
> TestDynamics LLC
> Thornton, CO
>
> georget@testdynamics.com
>
>

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