How to Move to the Next Column in a Grid When Using Check Box

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, version 3.0

SUMMARY

This article explains how, when using a check box in a column on a grid, you can move to the next column immediately on clicking the check box. The default behavior is to remain in the current column.

MORE INFORMATION

By placing code in the Valid event procedure of the check box object, you can programmatically determine the current column and then move to the next column using the SetFocus method. The following code illustrates one way to do this.

FOR myctlcntr=1 TO this.parent.parent.columncount && cycle through columns

   IF THIS.PARENT.PARENT.COLUMNS(myctlcntr).CONTROLS(2).NAME = THIS.NAME

      * In the next line columns(myctlcntr+1) comes beforem controls(2)
      * because the column header is the first control and data is the
      * second control.

      THIS.PARENT.PARENT.COLUMNS(myctlcntr+1).CONTROLS(2).SETFOCUS
      EXIT

   ENDIF