Is all this because you cannot focus on something in the middle of a closeField?
Bob On May 3, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > On 04/05/2011 02:14 PM, "Bill Vlahos" <bvla...@mac.com> wrote: > >> on closeField >> if me is not a date then >> answer error "Not a valid date. Retry?" with "No" or "Yes" >> if it is "Yes" then >> focus on me >> exit closeField >> end if >> end if >> pass closeField >> end closeField > > Bill - how about this? > > on closeField > send checkMe to me in 0 millisecs > end closeField > > on checkMe > if me is not a date then > answer error "Not a valid date. Retry?" with "No" or "Yes" > if it is "Yes" then > focus on me > end if > end if > end checkMe > > Works fine if you're tabbing between fields but if you click on the card > then the focus will stay with the field no matter what, whereas what you > probably want to do (if you choose 'no') is to focus on nothing. > > Something like this maybe... > > on checkMe > put the selectedChunk into tSelection > if me is not a date then > answer error "Not a valid date. Retry?" with "No" or "Yes" > if it is "Yes" then > focus on me > else > if tSelection is not empty then > select tSelection > else > focus on nothing > end if > end if > end if > end checkMe > > HTH, > > Terry... > > -- > Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education > Medical Education Unit > Melbourne Medical School > The University of Melbourne > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
