Works great so long as you only have fields, but sooner or later it is going to focus on your button. What I have done is on openCard I build a list of fields whose names match a criteria, such as starting with "fld" whose locktext is false. I save it in a property.
When I want to set the focus, I find my current field in the list, and then set the focus to the next object in the list. This has the added advantage of being able to run a "tab order" procedure to change the tab order of objects without changing their ID's. I also intercept the tab key in the card script and follow the above method instead of letting LC do it. Bob On Jun 16, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 06/16/2012 10:49 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: >> OK, today's kindergarten question, to which I think I knew the answer >> once upon a time (but then, i thought that I used to use "send some >> message to every field in this card" . . .). >> >> I want to be able to leave a field and focus to the next field, just >> as if tab were hit, from within a script. I've tried sending tab as a >> message to the field, and sending it to the card with a tick delay. >> >> Surely this is easy . . . >> >> > > I have just made a merry little stack with 3 fields all in a row. > > And a button containing this script: > > on mouseUp > put the id of the focusedObject into fOB > put (fOB + 1) into fOB > focus on fld id fOB > on mouseUp > > and, oddly enough, it shifts the focus down the line of fields, one per click. > > Have a lovely weekend. Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
