Thansk Jacques, I'll try the "ancient" trick. I tried switching traversalOn off and that did prevent the initial highlight but had some other undesired visual effect, too difficult to explain in words.
Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:30 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 8/20/13 2:26 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> Just tried that and no luck unfortunately. >> >> I can live with it the way it is but it means I will have to relayer a >> bunch of controls which will be in a pain since they're in groups. >> > > There's an ancient trick where you create a tiny editable object, make it > layer 1, and hide it under another control or off screen. When the stack > opens, that object gets the focus and no one sees it. > > Did you try turning off traversalOn on your buttons? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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<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