Posted by Andy Bower-3 on Dec 30, 2004; 8:54am
URL: https://forum.world.st/Tab-stop-design-question-tp3372532p3372538.html

Bill,
 
> Picture a bunch of text edits with the user tabbing between them.
> One is multi-line.  The user tabs to it, Windows selects the text,
> and the next tab overwrites the text - ouch!
>
> Are there any standard ways around it?  Expecting the user to press
> control-tab won't cut it; the damage is done by that point.  Undo
> might help, but only if they realize they did it :(

If you turn the #wantTab aspect off in the multi-line then it will
ignore all TAB presses and allow them to be used to tab on to the next
field without destroying the existing contents. The only(?) problem
with this approach is, of course, that one can no longer type TAB
characters into that fields.

Best regards

Andy Bower
Dolphin Support
www.object-arts.com