Overview of InfoPath Events

The events available to programmers in InfoPath 2003 are very different from the events available to HTML forms developers, or to users of the newer W3C XML Events specification (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-events), which is designed for use with W3C XForms (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms) and other technologies.

For example, in InfoPath there are no events related to setting or removing focus from a form control. Nor are there events that respond to a keypress or to hovering the mouse pointer over a part of a form. The absence of such events that you may be familiar with when scripting in HTML/XHTML pages means you have to adjust your approach to interactivity and other events in InfoPath significantly. In fact, ...

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