I agree completely. It would be good to have a message sent whenever the field changes for any reason.
Bill Vlahos _________________ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. On Dec 18, 2010, at 11:53 PM, p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: > Lots of input on this already but the bottom line is that closeField does > not get sent unless the user, not a script, changes the contents of a > field. In your example, if the script of your button changes the content > of a field, no closeField event will be generated. I get round this by > sending a closeField message to the field after I've set the contents by > script. That way you can do whatever you want whether the user changes > the contents or the script. > > Personally, I think this implementation is wrong. There are other events > like this, selectionChanged for example, and I have not come across a > single circumstance in any of my code where I did NOT want those events to > be generated when I did things in a script rather than the user doing > them. What I'd like to see is something similar to the menuHistory and > label property of a button. Change the label of a button by script - > menuPick doesn't happen. Change the menuHistory by script - menuPick does > happen. > > Pete > > On Sat, December 18, 2010 1:57 pm, Mike Kerner wrote: >> OK, if I understand previous threads correctly, closeField does not get >> send >> when you click on a button. So what happens if you click on a button that >> does something that causes the field to lose the focus - e.g. navigating >> to >> another card, putting different text in the field, selecting the text of >> another field, etc. what then? >> >> I guess I need a better explanation of when closeField does and does not >> get >> sent. >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
