Yes, but that part of the script already works. I have no problem deleting all of the text in the combo box, as I have a special case to account for that.
Bob S > On Feb 13, 2015, at 17:17 , Randy Hengst <iowahen...@mac.com> wrote: > > I'm not at my computer so this idea might just be worthless. Can the first > line of your industry list be empty and when you trap for delete go to line 1? > >> On Feb 13, 2015, at 6:43 PM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for the reply. Let me explain what I am trying to accomplish. >> >> I have a combo box with a property containing a list of Industry Names. >> Things like Retail Services, Auto Repair and such. As the user types, I want >> to autofill the text with the first choice in that list that matches what >> the user typed, then select the remaining text after it, so that typing >> replaces the text after the insertion point. That part works fine. >> >> But what happens when the user backspaces? Well it just fills in the >> remainder of the entry and selects after the insertion point like it >> normally does. I want the user to be able to delete what is there. Easy >> enough, I just put empty into the selectedText. But what if there *is* no >> selected text?? The selectedText is empty, the selected chunk is a >> description of the first line of the text. So it will delete the whole >> contents if I use that. >> >> Now if the selected chunk behaved in a combo box the way it does in a field, >> I could parse that and delete the character of the label prior to the >> insertion point. But it doesn’t, and no commands or functions I’ve found do. >> >> I did find a workaround though. The following seems to work properly. It’s a >> kludge in the finest tradition of epic kludges, but it works. >> >> on rawKeyDown pKeyCode >> if pKeyCode = 65288 then >> lock messages >> if the selection is empty then >> type numToChar(pKeyCode) >> exit to top >> end if >> end if >> pass rawKeyDown >> end rawKeyDown >> >> on textChanged >> if the label of me is empty then >> set the text of me to the options of me >> exit textChanged >> end if >> >> put the label of me into theValue >> put length(theValue) into theLength >> put the Options of me into theOptions >> filter theOptions with theValue & "*" >> >> if theOptions is not empty then >> set the text of me to theOptions >> if the text of me is among the lines of theOptions then >> -- set the label of me to line 1 of theOptions >> select char theLength +1 to -1 of me >> end if >> end if >> >> -- focus on me >> pass textChanged >> end textChanged >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
