Thanks Mike & Richmond.
Mike – your solution provides the behaviour I'm after but does seem to live on
the edge of a runaway loop! I increased the millisec delay from 1 to 5 to try
to reduce the potential for a runaway situation:
local sHilitedelay
on openField
if sHilitedelay is empty then put the millisec into sHilitedelay
if the millisec - sHilitedelay > 5 then send "hiliteText" to the target in 0
millisec
end openField
on hiliteText
select the text of the target
put the millisec into sHilitedelay
end hiliteText
Richmond – your solution matches the keyboard tabbing behaviour I'm after but
not the mouse selection behaviour.
My own further idea was the following in the card script:
on openField
-- on tabbing into a field highlight its current content:
hiliteText
end openField
on mouseEnter
-- on mousing into/across a field highlight its current content:
hiliteText
end mouseEnter
on hiliteText
put the id of the target into tID
if there is a field id tID then
-- select the text of field objects only:
select the text of the target
end if
end hiliteText
The above almost does what I want, but not quite. This method allows the user
to use either the tab key on the keyboard or the mouse pointer to select
another field. As the new field is selected, its current content is hilited
ready to be replaced by any keystrokes.
Note that the user must simply move the mouse pointer into (or across) the new
field but NOT click into it. When the user does click the mouse, it behaves
normally and places the insertion point in the current content at the position
of the mouse pointer at the moment of the click.
As with Mike's approach, the script for this behaviour is in the card script to
provide the default behaviour for all fields on the card.
Peter
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Peter Reid
Loughborough, UK
> On 20 Sep 2016, at 10:14pm, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote:
>
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:07:42 -0600
> From: Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Silly Text Field Question
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> Try this..
>
> local sHilitedelay
>
> on openField
>
> -- sHilitedelay is used to avoid a weird side effect when regaining stack
> focus
> -- by clicking on a field in the card. If a field other than the
> previously selected
> -- is clicked, it can start a runaway loop. The delay solves this problem.
> -- when experimenting you might put in a "if the shiftkey is down then exit
> to top"
> -- so you can break out of the loop if necessary, though the delay does
> appear to solve it fine.
> if sHilitedelay is empty then put the millisec into sHilitedelay
>
> -- use send in time so that all the housekeeping is completed before you
> try to hilite
> if the millisec - sHilitedelay > 1 then send "hiliteText" to the target
> in 0 millisec
>
> end openField
>
> on hiliteText
> select the text of the target
> put the millisec into sHilitedelay
> end hiliteText
>
> On 20 Sep 2016, at 10:14pm, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote:
>
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:29:25 +0300
> From: Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Silly Text Field Question
> Message-ID: <3960ebe8-2e97-572a-941f-b96a97345...@gmail.com>
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>
> Well, I missed something as well.
>
> I just put this script in the cardScript:
>
> on openCard
> set the autoTab of fld "f1" to true
> set the autoTab of fld "f2" to true
> set the autoTab of fld "f3" to true
> set the autoTab of fld "f4" to true
> end openCard
>
> and everything works . . . even if I did lose my temper several times.
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnnj9rxla17ij8j/Text%20Hop.livecode.zip?dl=0
>
> Richmond.
>
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