Shortcut and form element data value

Classic Servoy
1

Hi ,

I have a shortcut (let’s say F10) bound to a global method (plugins.window.createShortcut(‘F10’, globals.shortcut_handler)).

The problem is that when I am editing a field on the form and hit F10 the dataprovider value of that form element is not updated until the UI focus changes to another element.
How can I force the dataprovider value update in code ? I’ve tried focusField and requestFocus to another field but it all does not do the update in code…

Any ideas ? If not the shortcuts are not that useful in form edits while the demand of our customers for keyboard shortcuts is considerable…

Regards,

2

Can someone from Servoy please comment on this ?

Regards,

3

as far as i quickly can see, we don’t update ui state to the data layer when you execute functions through a plugin yes.

Please make a case for this to see if we can enhance that.

4

Ok, created case 394076.

Thanks for looking into it…

Regards,

5

I was experiencing problems with data elements not updating. I solved this by using omitrecord and loadomittedrecords. I set the shortcuts in the solution open globally. Wondering if this is a valid workaround or problem. Thanks for all your help.

//global method for solution open
function SolutionOpen()
{  
    plugins.window.createShortcut('shift ENTER',globals.Shortcut);
    plugins.window.createShortcut('shift ESCAPE',globals.Shortcut);
}

//global method
function Shortcut(event)
{	
	var form = currentcontroller.getName();
  	var shortcut = event.getType();

  	if(form.substr(0,3) == 'Dlg')//dialog shortcut keys
 	{
  		forms[form].controller.omitRecord();//use omit/load omit to have code recognize data element changes.Run into issues without this code.
                forms[form].controller.loadOmittedRecords();
        
		switch(shortcut)
		{		    
			case 'shift ENTER':
			forms[form].OK();//call dialog Ok function
	 		break;
	 		
	 		case 'shift ESCAPE':
			forms[form].Exit();//call dialog exit function
			break;
		
			default:
			return;
		}
  	}
  	else //non dialog forms
  	{
		switch(shortcut)
		{
			case 'shift ENTER':
			databaseManager.saveData();		
	 		break;
	 		
	 		case 'shift ESCAPE':
			application.closeForm(); 
			break;
		
			default:
			return;
		} 		
  	}
}
6

Hi,

This issue is fixed in Servoy 6.0.

Rob

7

will not be updating to servoy 6 soon. Will adding the omitRecord and loadomittedRecords cause unforseen problems. All my test’s show that this will be a fix until I upgrade to version 6.