That sounds like when the button has the focus, it works fine, but when it does not have the focus it does not work. When a button has the focus, enter and space bar will effect that control usually (at least in other languages).
Mike On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 13:45:36 -0400 (EDT), dunb...@aol.com wrote: > Mark. > > Try this: > > Create a new stack, drag an editable field and a defaultButton over. > > Put this in the button script: > > on mouseUp > beep 3 > end mouseUp > > Press return, get three beeps. Now place a cursor in the field. Hit return, no beeps, as is proper. > Now click anywhere in the card area, deselecting the field. Hit return. No beeps > Now click the button. Three beeps. > Now hit return. Three beeps > > Are there two levels of "no active control"? > > AHA. > > Just tried this all over again, and no beeps of any kind at all, no matter what I do, unless, of course, I click the actual button itself. > > OXS 10.4.11 LC 4.5.3 > > Craig > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Schonewille > To: How to use LiveCode > Sent: Thu, Sep 1, 2011 8:29 am > Subject: Re: Default Button > > Hi, > > This is what I just did: > > 1) create new stack > 2) drag one default button from the tools palette into your stack > 3) edit the script of the button to make it been on mouseUp (and nothing else) > 4) compile and close script > 5) press return > 6) hear beep > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com [3] > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer [4] > KvK: 50277553 > > Send me a friend request on Facebook if you like https://www.facebook.com/marksch [5]On 1 sep 2011, at 17:20, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 8/31/11 7:29 PM, Pete wrote: >> >>> I put a default button a card that has a couple of field controls on it. The field controls all have lockText set to true and traversalOn set to false. Pressing the return key when the card is active does not execute the mouseUp handler for the default button as claimed by the dictionary. Is there some other setting of the card/button/controls that I have to use? >> Funny, I never knew about this capability. I've always had to script it with a > > returnKey handler in the card, I've never seen a default behavior. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [6] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode [7] > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [8] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode [9] Links: ------ [1] mailto:m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com [2] mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [3] http://economy-x-talk.com [4] http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer [5] https://www.facebook.com/marksch [6] mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [7] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode [8] mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [9] 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