break off and msgbox

[Richard D. Williams]

Nancy,

Thanks for your input.
This hasn't been a real problem for me until just recently.

I guess I am going to start putting "break off" in front and "break on" 
after the msgbox command.

Wow. What a pain.

Richard

On 9/23/2015 10:52 AM, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list wrote:
> Richard,
>
> Users can be so creative when they use a computer.  I think you need 
> to turn off the break key when it would be an issue for them to break 
> out in general.
>
> If they are hitting break to exit a MSGBOX what is to stop them from 
> hitting break in general from a data entry field or at the end of data 
> entry and before the record is saved.  I have seen this all too often.
>
> I see users that can type so fast they are 3 screens ahead of the 
> display.  All their keystrokes going in to the buffer.  These typists 
> can be a menace because they never see any messages and will hit break 
> causing issues because things have not written yet.
>
> I always handle @SK eq "BRKY" after an INPUT command but never have 
> after msgbox or errorbox.  Maybe it was a flaw that never appeared or 
> I just do not use them the way you do.  But it does give one food for 
> thought.
>
> Nancy
>
> On 9/23/2015 11:22 AM, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
>> Lately I found users hitting the break key to exit a msgbox prompt.
>> This can cause many issues.
>>
>> Besides locating every msgbox command and placing a "break off" in 
>> front and a "break on" after it.
>>
>> Is there an environment setting to turn off the break key when the 
>> command msgbox is used?
>>
>> If not, can we get one created as an update?
>>
>> Richard D. Williams
>>
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