Nice idea but alas, no joy with before mouseDown. I think the OS must do the highlighting even before LC gets into the loop.
On Sun Feb 22 2015 at 12:14:48 PM J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > On 2/22/2015 1:11 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I'm trying to find a message that is sent when I click on a line in a > > scrolling list field that happens before the selectedline property > changes > > to show the line that was just clicked. > > > > I've tried mouseDown and selectionChanged but the selectedLines property > > has already changed when I get them. > > > > The purpose is to remember the selectedLines before the most recent > click. > > I can do it by storing the selected lines in a script local variable but > > just curious to know if there is a message that is sent before the > > selectedLines property changes. > > That's how I've always done it, I couldn't find any other way. But now > we have "before" and "after" handlers for use with behaviors, so if I > had to figure this out again, I'd assign a behavior to the field and try > those. > > before mouseDown > -- get the line number > end mouseDown > > Might work. > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
