We need a referendum... on MEMO...

[GCC Consulting]

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> 
> Okay, we've started using the MEMO function lots more now 
> that some of the small niggles are fixed in 5.6 (and 5.0.15). 
>  Mainly, the prompts for inserting (D)ate and (T)ime can now 
> be mnemonic as they really should be (with an environment var.)
> 
> 
> 
>        http://www.valar.com/tripsheet.wmv
> 
> 
> You will see the problem precisely... and, I think... along 
> with several others I've talked to, that  the situation can 
> be FIXED. How?  FP Tech makes one decision... one decision to 
> break some programming that *some* few people may have in 
> place.... in order to provide the vast majority of folks out 
> there with a functionality that is much preferred. I'm 
.........
> 
> John
> 
> P.S. - Yes, I understand that it could be viewed that TAB 
> should work as a TAB inside the  little MEMO editor... That 
> wasn't a bad design decision...
> or really any kind of foul up at all.... It is all very 
> correct... and I don't really mean to say it is "wrong".  
> BUT, it totally screws up the general way filePro is used... 
> and in the last analysis makes MEMO's that much harder to 
> use.  I hope you all agree with me and I'm not just imagining 
> how much of a pain this is....  (Actually, the only other 3 
> people I've asked about this, fully agree... so I'm not too 
> worried.)  Watch, then  Vote.  I don't know that a landslide 
> of YES's would do much to get it changed by FP Tech... but it 
> would be a start.  The next thing after this...
> would be to get some kind of *triggers* working while in a 
> MEMO field.... but I'm willing to start small.  :-)
> 
> Incidentally, if you've read this far... my long-awaited... 
> (at least, long
> announced) special, major new thing is finally almost 
> ready.... Next week some time for sure!!!
> 
Just my 2 cents.

I would agree that tab, for most of us, should function to move between
fields.

However, if one is using Memo as a word processor, the tab would have to
work as in a word processing program.

Now there are some other possible solutions and that might be to use a
function key to close the memo window.

F9 might be a good alternative as it is in easy reach on most keyboards.
Granted this is not as easy a reach as the tab key but would not break any
code.  Most filepro users are accustomed to using the function keys for one
function or another.

Since @sk is not available when in the memo editor, the close key might be
able to be set when memo is called.

Memo edit (options,GRAF)

Again, this is just a possible alternative.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting