Incrementing Alphanumeric Fields

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/19/2012 2:13 PM, Bruce Easton wrote:
[...]
> Also, since you say it will sometimes jump to U####, then could
> the user sometimes be holding down the U a little too long
> (when they have keyed U to go into update mode and this field
> 1 is the first field on the screen)?  I guess I am wondering if
> the field sometimes is populated correctly, but the user is
> unintentionally overwriting one or more characters with the
> same U that was being held to go into update mode.
[...]

I hadn't thought of that, but you are correct.  His code doesn't prevent the 
user from changing the value of field 1 the first time it's assigned a value.

-- 
Kenneth Brody