Run exit event code on keyboard exit and not mouse exit

[Former Community Member]

It appears the exit event runs on a table's cell (type text field) whenever you select a new cell with the mouse.  I have the need to force a Tab or Enter to set keyboard focus to a different cell in a different table.  That is easy enough to have happen, but when you select a location with the mouse, the exit event appears to run, and over-rides the keyboard focus to the location I am forcing.  Is there a way to skip the code if the exit event occurs from non-keyboard input?

[Niall_O_Donovan · Accepted solution]

Hi,

The exit event will always fire when the object loses focus. Have a look at the end of this example, which shows how you can detect how the field was exited: http://assure.ly/j1KdNq.

This early example also looked a setting the focus of a field when pressing enter: https://acrobat.com/#d=RZ1lzX23*u7L4N9rtWCYPQ.

Hope that helps,

Niall

[Former Community Member]

Perfect!  Thank you. Niall.  I also found the Shift property helpful since the commitKey property did not return the correct direction.  I made the following code, changing the end to go to the correct locations based on where the user is.  In some cases it would go to either direction

// Declare some variables

var i = this.parent.index;

var i2 = xfa.event.commitKey;

var testResult = 0;

// Determine how the user exited the field

switch (i2)

{

          case 0:

                    //value is not set, such as an escape key, so do nothing

                    break;

          case 1:

                    //left clicked out with the mouse, so do nothing

                    break;

          case 2:

                    //enter key, so go to next field

                    testResult = 1;

                    break;

          case 3:

                    //tab, so check for the shift key and go the appropriate direction.

                    if (xfa.event.shift)

                    {

                              testResult = -1;

                    }

                    else

                    {

                              testResult = 1;

                    }

                    break;

          default:

                    break;

}

if (testResult > 0)

{

          //Set keyboard focus to the next first cell in this row of the next table if a tab was pressed

          xfa.host.setFocus("TableLeft.ItemRow[" + i + "].Cell1");

}

else if (testResult < 0)

{

          //Set keyboard focus to the previos cell in this row of the next table if a tab was pressed

          //If this is the first row in the table, go back to the last cell in the header row

          //If this is not the first row, go to the previous row

          if (i>0)

          {

                    xfa.host.setFocus("TableRight.ItemRow[" + (i - 1) + "].Cell15");

          }

          else

          {

                    xfa.host.setFocus("TableRight.HeaderRow.Cell15");

          }

}