Hitting Back Space in Remote Panel while entering character in string control

[A_Senthilnathan]

I am using Remote Panel in my application. I use string control where user enters some information through remote panel to the software. While entering the info in the string control in remote panel (using IE 6), If i mistype any thing and hit back space, IE goes to previous page. Instead I would like it to delete the last character i typed in string control.

Is there any setting in the IE to disable the back space fucntion? Or Is there way to set the LV RT engine to take the back space in remote panel.

please help me solve this problem.

Thanks,
Senthilnathan A.

[Shea C]

Hello A. Senthilnathan,
Thank you for your inquiry regarding Remote Panels. After building an application using Remote Panels I understand the problem that you are having. However, the Backspace keystroke is assigned to IE and can only be reassigned by possibly modifying the IE registry. One possible solution if the string to be typed is not long is to use CTRL+BACKSPACE in the text field. This will reset the text field and allow you to retype the desired text. Another solution is to use IE 4.0. More information on this topic can be found at the following site

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;191931

I hope these resources help. Let me know if I can further assist you.

Shea C.
Applications Engineering

[Shaun Martin]

Cut and paste this snippet into your the of your HTML document to make IE ignore the backspace.

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function mykeyhandler() {
if (window.event && window.event.keyCode == 😎 { // ignore the backspace
window.event.cancelBubble = true;
window.event.returnValue = false;
return false;
}
}

document.onkeydown = mykeyhandler;
//--></script>

[A_Senthilnathan]

Thanks Shaun Martin for your help, the code snippet was very useful. Now the back space is not going to the previous page.

Still it is not able to clear the last character entered in the remote panel string control. Is there any labVIEW settings to do this?

[Shea C]

Here is another link to Microsoft's page about the problem. You may want to post the issue on their site to see if someone has found a way to fix the problem since this happems for all applets running in IE.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;235239&Product=ie

Hope this helps...

Shea C
Applications Engineering