change of focus and "no empty" constraint

asked 2008-08-25 20:40:07 +0800

dastultz
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Suppose I have a form with 2 textboxes with "no empty" constraints. The textboxes bind to a bean. When the user is on the second field I want the pressing of Enter to add a new record, reset the fields to blank, then switch the focus to the first textbox. The resetting of the the fields is done by clearing the values in the bean and calling binder.loadAll(), followed by firstTextbox.focus(). It seems this last action triggers the "no empty" constraint on the second textbox.

This seems like a common data-entry pattern. Is there some way to change the focus without triggering the "no empty" constraint?

/Daryl