Capturing the use of the RETURN / ENTER key in a custom dialog

You have very little control over the fine behavior of the dialog. The JavaScript dialogs are very simple and set in their ways. However, most of the time pressing Return/Enter has the same the same effect as the user pressing OK. There are situations where Enter is interpreted differently, for example, when keyboard focus is on an Active dropdown list or a multi-line edit box. If the focus is on the cancel button the dialog is exited with Cancel.

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Thom,

I have been using a normal button labelled SEARCH to execute the search function and close the dialog box, using a coded "close".
I have discovered that if I use an OK button to execute the search then this will enable the RETURN/ENTER key to execute the search code too, thus achieving the original aim of this thread.

HOWEVER, this brings up a different problem.
At the moment when the SEARCH button is pressed it brings up an app.alert if the text box is empty and when alert is closed the dialog is still active and text can be typed into the box etc.
However, by using an OK button the app.alert appears as before but once this alert is closed the whole dialog is closed, i.e. it finishes running the COMMIT function.
Is there anyway to "exit" the commit function if the text field is empty so the user can return to the dialog and type some text in, or is it possible to program the commit function so that it returns the focus back to the text box?

Regards,

Nifty

First, I don't know if you've discovered this or not, but you can change the text on the OK button to whatever you want using the "ok_name" property of the button element.

Next, to deal with the empty text box use the "validate" function for the dialog. Use a script like this:

var oRslt =dialog.store();

if(oRslt["txt1"] == "")
{
app.alert("please enter search text");
return false;
}
else
return true;