Never mind - I forgot to pass tabKey! Sorry! Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Pete <p...@mollysrevenge.com> wrote: > Thanks Craig and Dave - I used Dave's suggestion (mainly because I'm not > very familiar with using graphics in LC) and all seems to be working fine > now. > > The only remaining issue I have now is how to figure out if I entered the > field via a mouse click or a tab key. Right now I have a tabKey handler in > the control whose layer is 1 less than the layer of my text field. In it, I > set a custom property of the text field to indicate that I entered it via > the tab key and check for that in the openField handler of the text field. > > For some reason, pressing tab in the control whose layer is 1 less than the > text field doesn't give focus to the text field. It's traversalOn property > is true and lockText is false. Any other reasons why I can't tab to it? Or > maybe there's a better way to deal with this situation? > > Thanks, > > > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 3:23 PM, <dunb...@aol.com> wrote: > >> Pete: >> >> >> Why not place a colored graphic over the selectedText? I have done this, >> and though it seems like a kluge, well, it is a kluge, it is noneTheLess >> simple and effective. >> >> >> Craig Newman >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Pete <p...@mollysrevenge.com> >> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> >> Sent: Tue, Sep 27, 2011 12:21 pm >> Subject: Managing the hilite color of selected text >> >> >> LC does not retain the hilite of any selected text in a field once you >> click >> on another control and does not restore it when you click back into the >> field again. I'm hoping to find a generalised solution to this. >> >> In other applications, it seems that the standard way of working is: >> >> - change the hilite of any selected text in a field to a light grey color >> when another control is clicked >> >> - change the hilite back to the blue hilite color if the user tabs back >> into >> the field >> >> - clear the hilite completely if the user clicks back into the field >> >> That's the behavior I'm aiming for. >> >> So far, I have: >> >> - a mouseLeave handler that sets a custom property of the field to its >> selectedChunk and changes the backgroundcolor of the selectedchunk to >> gray >> >> - a mouseEnter handler that uses the custom property to set the >> backgroundcolor of the selected text back to blue again. >> >> So far so good. What remains is to handle what happens when the user >> arrives back into the field either by tabbing into it or by clicking into >> it. >> >> So far I have tried to use an openField handler to achieve this. Right >> now, >> I'm just trying to deal with the situation where the user clicks back into >> the field, by setting the background color of the field to either empty or >> white, but neither method removes the highlight from the selected text and >> if I type more text into the field, it appears with the hilite background >> color. Even if I delete all the text in the field and type new text in, >> it >> still appears with the blue background color. >> >> The other issue is how to distinguish between the user clicking into the >> field and tabbing into it. >> >> I'm pretty sure this must have come up before so hoping for some guidance >> from anyone who has come up with the solution. >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Pete >> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
