I *have* a mouseup handler in the field, and it works fine. -- Peter
Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jul 20, 2015, at 3:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > But did you try a mouseUp handler? I'm curious if the field is recognized in > any way. > > On 7/20/2015 1:47 PM, Peter Brigham wrote: >> Unfortunately, I still get nothing with "the hilitedlines of me" in the >> field script. The arrowkey message is not going to the field. >> >> Here's the arrowkey handler in the card script. This works fine but I don't >> know why it should be necessary. >> >> on arrowkey what >> put hilitedline of fld "notesList" into lineNbr >> put the number of lines of fld "notesList" into totNbr >> switch what >> case "left" >> case "right" >> pass arrowkey >> break >> case "up" >> if lineNbr = 1 then >> put totNbr into nextLineNbr >> else >> put lineNbr - 1 into nextLineNbr >> end if >> break >> case "down" >> if lineNbr = nextLineNbr then >> put 1 into nextLineNbr >> else >> put lineNbr + 1 into nextLineNbr >> end if >> break >> end switch >> set the hilitedline of fld "notesList" to nextLineNbr >> put line nextLineNbr of fld "notesList" into listEntry >> put getItem(listEntry, 1, tab) into noteTitle >> displayNote noteTitle >> pass arrowkey >> end arrowkey >> >> -- Peter >> >> Peter M. Brigham >> pmb...@gmail.com >> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig >> >> >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:14 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On 7/19/2015 10:17 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> There is a line selected. If I put the following into the field script: >>>> >>>> on arrowkey >>>> put the hilitedlines >>>> end arrowkey >>>> >>>> then click in the field to select a line, then hit up- or >>>> down-arrowkey, nothing happens. The field is apparently not getting the >>>> arrowkey message. It's acting as though the traversalon of the field is >>>> false, but it's not. >>>> >>> >>> >>> What do you get if you put this into the field script: >>> >>> on mouseUp >>> put the hilitedlines of me >>> end mouseUp >>> >>> BTW, I think your arrowkey test needs "of the target". Hilitedlines >>> without an object reference is probably always empty. _______________________________________________ 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
