Not dumb at all.
Here is a kluge, but there is a problem with it, that is, making the returned
focus stick. This was solved in a thread a while back (that I was part of, but
cannot remember how we did it, nor find the thread)
With a few fields on a card, place this in the stack script:
on exitField
if "field" is in the target then
set the lastFocus of this stack to "field" && the short name of the target
end if
end exitfield
on closeField
exitField
end closeField
on resumeStack
if "field" is in the lastFocus of this stack then
focus on field the lastFocus of this stack
wait 10 with messages
focus on nothing
wait 10 with messages
select after text of field the lastFocus of this stack
end if
end resumeStack
You can see all sorts of stuff happening in the correct field, but focus does
not stick. Those silly lines are just tests I tried to make focus stick. I am
interested in how we once solved this little issue. Anyway, add that to the
kluge, and it should work. I am sure this can be done other ways, like with
"focusOut" for example.
On another note,if you place this in a button on the card:
focus on fid 1
Focus sticks. Well, of course. The issue, as before, was making the focus stick
with a more "distant" action, rather than "locally", that is, while the card is
already in front. Now I am the one asking the dumb question...
Craig Newman
-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sun, Nov 2, 2014 6:25 pm
Subject: Palettes and the selectedObject
Another probably dumb question.
If I am keying in a field in an ordinary stack window and I stop to do
something
on a palette, I had hoped that the focusedObject would remain in the ordinary
stack - however it turns out that the focusedObject is now the visible card of
the palette. Does this mean that the previous focusedObject is lost and thus I
can't use a palette to do an insertion in the field in the ordinary stack?
Looks
like it. But programs like Apple's Keyboard Viewer do it, and I suppose there
must be stuff like that on Windows. The question is, is there a way to do it in
LC?
I know I can tell if a field loses focus (e.g. from a focusOut message), but by
then of course the focusedObject will be somewhere else, by definition.
Graham
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