Hi -

I believe I requested this enhancement in one of my recent messages; however I can't find it.  So, here it is again - but with a "semi-solution" in the meantime.

I would like to be able to pop open the field editor from a layout element OTHER THAN the one I want to see in the editor.  In other words, I may be in a FIRST NAME LE and want to look at the remarks (which even if I went to the Remarks LE, exceed the visible area).  Then when I close the field editor, I would still be in the FIRST NAME LE, where I wanted to be. I'm picturing a simple command like @fedit(Remarks) or something similar.

I truly hope this will be considered and provided because it would be a nice enhancement to Sesame.

IN THE MEANTIME, I have come up with a partial solution.  I now have a command button next to my Remarks LE, that's labeled.  SEE ALL REMARKS.  When you press the button, the field editor pops up with all the remarks in it.

But, what I really did was "fool" myself.  The command button does nothing but take you to another LE (camouflaged so you can't see it).  As soon as you enter the non-visible LE, the on-element-entry programming simply copies the REMARKS to the non-visible LE and then opens the field editor with the existing @fedit command.  So, although you are seeing what is in the REMARKS LE, you are really not in it at all ... yet what you see are the Remarks.  Neat, huh?

Now, to tell the truth, that is not the way I really used it.  I actually used it as part of my @sendmail programming for mass e-mailing.  But the why's and wherefore's of that are a little more complex and I thought it would be better understood when explained this way.

I hope this is clear; I've been working on mass e-mailing all day long and am really weary.

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You are such a Tease

Any Rumors floating around about potential release dates?

Thanks

Ray -

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I think I brought this up elsewhere, but it is worth repeating.  I hope that if "x" is clicked to close the editor, we will be given the option to continue the close either with or without saving the changes.

One of the reasons it is so difficult for me to remember NOT to click X to close the field editor is because of the different behavior of the program editor.  In the field editor, the changes are "lost" the moment you click on X.    In the program editor, they are not lost (unless you choose not to save any of the changes to your program layout).  

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Ray,

I don't think you are correct here. I also have found that if I click the red "X", my changes are lost. Pressing F6 is the only way I know of to close the window AND save the changes, other than via the File menu.

Oh yeah. Duh!

Sorry Ray. Since Spencer was on the subject of the F6 editor window, I didn't even notice that you did state "Program Editor" right there in plain view.

It's all right Carl.

Back on the subject of the X in the Field Editor. If it does get changed to prompt when closing, then the PopupStringEditor will also get that change. The two are meant to be close to each other so the user does not have to learn new keystrokes. In 2.0 all three editors(Program, Field, String) share as many common keystrokes as possible, which is 44 as of the last time I looked.

-Ray