WEF brwlooks - no cursor

[Joe Chasan]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 11:42:52AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> I'm tempted to report this as a bug, but (as so often happens) maybe
> it's just me (so many things are just me<tm>):
> 
> I'm using a brwlook to pop up a list of valid data values for a field
> (from another lookup file, using that code I posted last hour :-), and
> I'm doing it from WEF, so the user doesn't have to think.
> 
> Cause users don't think all that well.
> 
> Alas, there's one minor problem with doing it this way.
> 
> When filePro pops up a browse lookup, it turns off the text cursor.
> Normally that's ok, since you watched the cursor enter the field in
> question, then hit F6 manually, so you know where you are.
> 
> If you WEF it, though, you never see the cursor enter that field.
> 
> I know I can manually position the browse, but is that all people do
> when they do this?  Is there some other way to make clear which field
> you're popping up for?

maybe change it to pushkey [DMAP] and put your processing @wbl instead?
 
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