Focus on Checkboxes

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Susan Smith
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Focus on Checkboxes

Post by Susan Smith »

Hi all,

When you have a screen full of controls and some of them are checkboxes - especially several checkboxes in a row, you can't tell which field has focus when you get to the checkboxes. This is quite confusing to users who can't tell what field they are on - especially while entering new records when they are working "top down" as opposed to clicking around the screen in random order.

Datahilite doesn't appear to do anything for checkboxes. I tried that.

The checkboxes DO "light up" when they have focus (like buttons do when you mouse over them). If DATAHILITE could make that behavior happen (or it would reverse like any other field does when it has focus under datahilite, OR checkboxes could respond to ATTR "something" in the RINPUT mat fields statement (or all of the above), it would solve the problem. But maybe someone has another solution that would work now? I'm using 4.18.

-- Susan
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