Getting a field name

[Jim Hurley]

>Here's my problem. A button handler in a palette stack reads:
>
>on mouseup
>   answer "Click on the application field." with OK
>   if it is empty then exit mouseUP
>   wait until the mouseclick
>   answer the clickstack --But I want the field name, not the stack name
>end mouseup
>
>What the user is suppose to do is click on the field in the 
>application stack and the name of the field is revealed. The above 
>handler produces the stack name, not the field name.
>
>Naturally I tried "the clickField" but that comes up empty. 
>(clickField is set to empty after a mouseclick.)  And "the target" 
>gives the name of the button which originally received the message 
>in the palette stack, not the field in the application stack.
>
>How do I get the name of the clicked  field in the application 
>stack revealed to the palette stack?
>
>Jim


Well, I found a way, but it is a kludge:

on mouseup
   answer "Click on the field to use." with OK
   wait until the mouseclick
   put the clickloc into tLoc
   put the clickstack into tStackName
   repeat with i = 1 to the number of controls in tStackName
     if tloc is within the rect of control i of  tStackName then
       put the  name of control i of tStackName into theClickControl
       exit repeat
     end if
   end repeat
   put theClickControl into field theFieldName
end mouseup


(Assuming the controls don't overlap.)

There must be a cleaner way.

Jim