arrow keys in a text field?

[Geoff Canyon]

I have a rawKeyUp handler to allow scrollbars to appear/disappear as 
the content overflows the field, but it passes all inputs.

TabGroupBehavior turned out to be the culprit. I don't know how it was 
set to true, but it was. Now all is well.

Thanks!

regards,

Geoff Canyon
gcanyon at inspiredlogic.com

On Sep 13, 2004, at 8:23 PM, David Vaughan wrote:

> I have had a similar problem for ages with my Stocks stack, where 
> attempting to navigate within a field actually moves you to the next 
> field. Your problem inspired me to check the problem again. I found a 
> group, which I do not recall creating but which may be giving 
> background behaviour to the objects on the cards (it is a 
> reimplementation of a HyperCard stack). In its properties, I unchecked 
> "Arrow keys navigate contents" and my problem was resolved. Hope it 
> might work for you.

On Sep 13, 2004, at 9:30 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> So the next thing would be to look at the properties of the group 
> itself, since the misbehavior only occurs there. I'm not sure what 
> properties would block arrow key behavior, but you could try toggling 
> various ones to see if it helps. Also, it almost sounds like you have 
> an arrowKey handler, keydown handler, or a rawKeyDown handler 
> somewhere that may be blocking the behavior; probably in the group 
> script?