fieldTemplate Broken?

[J. Landman Gay]

On 3/5/05 4:45 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:

> 
> On Mar 5, 2005, at 2:21 PM, Malte Brill wrote:
> 
>> The docs state that the templateField is reset when the handler 
>> finishes executing, so I assume it only works in a handler.
> 
> 
> I don't see that in my docs, although that clearly appears to be true. 
> It does work from the message box but only if I use the create command 
> there rather than creating the field from the tool palette. Seems broken 
> to me, but in any case it is clearly not useful in the way I was 
> anticipating suggesting its use in my new eBook on printing in Rev. So 
> I'll move on.

I bet it isn't broken. What I suspect is that when you drag from the 
tool palette, Rev IDE sets your field to the properties you have defined 
in preferences. I think that is as it should be. If you create a field 
from a script or the message box, you get the templateField settings.

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