Help with - "Do you want fries with that?"

Hi

I wrote an app a long time ago that looked perfectly suited for a touch screen display. The user could choose the item or items that they want to enter into a POS terminal and could enter the cash or check transaction and generate a receipt.

I just realized after installing a touchscreen that I never programmed the buttons with the numbers 0-9 or the decimal point to replace their keyboard equivalents. Does anyone know what code is necessary to have a button with a '3' caption to press the '3' on the keyboard within its click event

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks
-Tom

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Help with - "Do you want fries with that?"

Jon_The_Coder
Hi Tom,

I did a similar thing some years ago. Just create a Commandbutton class with the correct size, and add this code in the click event:

KEYBOARD This.Caption

Then add a bunch of those buttons into a toolbar, edit the captions of those buttons and presto: there ya go. You could also use a Form with AllwaysOnTop = .t. or marked as dockable in VFP9.

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Charles Aimer
Thanks guys -

It was one of those programmer's block situations. I wrote the app 7 years ago, and I don't know the programmer anymore I had tried the KEYBOARD command, but was neglecting to setfocus() to the proper control, so it wasn't working. Now I have to work through the problem that I used the lostfocus() method on the textbox to complete the transaction. Everytime I hit a button, it re-runs the lostfocus() code and I lose the previous entry. (Bad programmer)

-Tom
zdjray
Look at the KEYBOARD command in Help.

KEYBOARD "3"

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dv_foxhelp9/html/266ac2f6-a8e6-40de-bf76-dc7843c33795.asp
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