Yeah, it is probably wiser to increase the delay as you did to be safe (if you decided to use the method) This is another thing that would be nice as a settable property. "set the autohilite of field "whatever" to true"
On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Peter Reid <pr...@reidit.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > -- > 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 > > Message-ID: > > <CAG1cpSocDM5+65vekuVfd=qKWHER-+=FWNN-9bSvp4sTkHYsBA@ > mail.gmail.com> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > > > 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> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > > > 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. > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
