Cursor position in the LOV component

I don't think there is a api to set the cursor position (Formspider Team correct me if I'm wrong) but it should be possible to do with a little bit of javascript.

I have a working demo of this and if there is enough interest I can put a tar file somewhere, but I'll put instructions below

Create a new application with the following xml in the mainPanel

<panel>
  <tableLayout cellSpacing="5">
    <row>
      <cell>
        <textLabel label="Field A"/>
      </cell>
      <cell>
        <textField name="curtest"/>
      </cell>
    </row>
  </tableLayout> 
</panel>

create a .js file and paste the following code into it

function setCursor(elemName, pos) {
var elem = document.getElementById(elemName);

if(elem != null) {
    if(elem.createTextRange) {
        var range = elem.createTextRange();
        range.move('character', pos);
        range.select();
    }
    else {
        if(elem.selectionStart) {
            elem.focus();
            elem.setSelectionRange(pos, pos);
        }
        else
            elem.focus();
    }
  }
}

I've put mine in the "js" subdirectory and called it cursorTest.js next edit the main.jsp page and add the following line just after it adds the fs-all.js file

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/cursorTest.js?version=1.0"></script>

Next in the formspiderIDE create a new external method with the following settings:-

Name: setCursor
JavaScript Signature: setCursor(string, number)

Leave everything else blank, hit OK

For the demo I've created a simple "init" procedure that is called when the app starts and the code is below

procedure init as
  v_params_t      api_externalMethod.tt_params;
begin

  api_component.setvalue('mainPanel.curtest','this is a test');

  v_params_t('0').value_tx := 'curtest-mainPanel';
  v_params_t('1').value_tx := 0;
  api_externalMethod.invoke('setCursor', v_params_t);
end init;

When you now run the application the cursor should be positioned at the start of the field. hope this helps Simon