Problems with field selectOnEnter property

Classic Servoy
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I’m having an hard time with the selectOnEnter property of a field.
In a table view I have a ItemCode field that requires to automatically select all the field content when the field get the focus so I have checked the selectOnEnter property and it works fine.
On the other hand I had to implement some keyboard shortcuts to automatically create a new row for commonly used item codes or PARTIAL item codes, example: CTRL-1 creates a new row and set the code to “P25_”, the user can then complete the code by typing the rest of it to “P25_50021”.
On the ItemCode field I have an onDataChange method that lookups the item description and price so when the keyboard shortcut is used I need to run the following code (I cant simply set the dataprovider value because the onDataChange then would not trigger):

if(_event)
		{
			var _shortcut = _event.getType()
			var _sql = "SELECT cdshtc FROM shtc00f WHERE shtcmac = ? OR shtcpc = ? ORDER BY idshtc ASC"
			var _ds = databaseManager.getDataSetByQuery('lfspa',_sql,[_shortcut,_shortcut],1)
			if(_ds.getValue(1,1))
			{
				elements.fld_code.replaceSelectedText(_ds.getValue(1,1))
				elements.fld_code.requestFocus(false)
			}
		}

It works fine but the whole field content is selected after the method is done and that is very annoying for the user.

I haven’t yet found a way to temporarily disable the field selectOnEnter property when running the shortcut method.
I have also tried to turn the property off and use an onFieldFocusGained method to select the whole text but that doesn’t work.

Any idea of how I could disable the selectOnEnter when running the shortcut method while keeping it active when the user simply enter the field?

2

this is just a hack, i haven’t tested it
But what about using the focus gained?
And when you don’t want to select it all do something like

field.setCaretPosition(0)
field.setCaretPostion(text.length);

3

Tried that Johan but it doesn’t work.
When the field is set to use SelectOnEnter elements.fld_code.caretPosition doesn’t work.
I suspect it’s a problem with caretPosition, Riccardo has already opened a case in the tracking system.

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my guess is that the selection is done after you get focus… So when you do anything in the onfocus method that will be overwritten by the selection we do after it…
(thats my guess at the moment)