lotus notes: intercept ESC keyboard button press

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in lotus notes script i use a DialogBox to display a form where users put data.

But if the user press ESC keyboard button all data that user put in my DialogBox will be lost.

Is there a method to intercept when user press "ESC" button and save all data of the DialogBox form ?

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1 Answers

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I would use QueryClose event on Form.

I see 3 ways how solve your task:

  1. Save data into User Profile (see more details here: GetProfileDocument)
  2. Save data into notes.ini (more details here: SetEnvironmentString)
  3. Add a validation on QueryClose that will ask User if it's OK to close Dialog dialog. Parameter Continue controls if Dialog can be closed or not.

See screen with QueryClose event below.

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NOTE: if you want to have different behavior on if user clicked Cancel button and Esc than make Cancel as a custom button, so it first set some values to dialog and than fire closing, in such way on QueryClose event you will know how user fired close dialog event.