I'm redoing my very old  but very complex Q&A application in Sesame and getting excited about the possibilities.  But now there's something I'm trying to do that I can't find the way.  Only part of this was imported from Q&A, the other part is something that I'd just prefer to make it look better now that I'm not held back by Q&A's limitations.

When certain conditions are true when leaving a certain field, I want what appears to be a popup to appear with two fields for the user to fill in and a button to push to make it go get some data from another db and a cancel button.  From what I understand, I can't do this with any kind of true popup window.  So I tried to have a tab page (I will already have several tabs) that is invisible most of the time.  When the conditions are true leaving the field I want to make the invisible tab page visible and on top and move the user to the first field of that tab page. 

so my questions are

1.  How do I move the user to a specified field in programming?

and

2.  Can I do this with a single page of a set of tab pages?  and if so how?  Or heck, if there's a better way tell me that too.

Throwfocus is on page 227-228 of the Sesame 1.1 Programming Manual.  It was added in version 1.0.1 and has been in the documentation supplement until the release of the new manuals.

There are several ways to accomplish this. One way is to prompt the user to input some information using @PromptForUserInput(). You would need to do it twice in order for them to enter two things. Or just have them enter the first piece of data separated by some character and then the second piece of data. You could then parse the pieces apart. @PromptForUserInput() is on pages 201-202 of the Sesame 1.1 Programming Manual

Another way is to have two more text elements on your form and two command buttons. When Business Source is DM you can move those elements up the form using XPos() and YPos() so they appear above the other elements. Once the user clicks Ok or Cancel the elements get moved back down the form.

I would not recommend using a tab to do this.

-Ray