Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

Sarah Reichelt sarah.reichelt at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 20:24:55 EST 2005


> I have a pulldown menu button on  group shared across all cards in a
> stack... the standard "Edit".
>
> Select All/A
>
> the cmd symbol for the Mac appears as expected to the right of the
> menu item in the pull down.
>
> case "Select All"
> if the selected fld is not empty then select text of the selected field.
> break
>
> If I run this stack from m stand alone player, the item to select all
> text in a field only works if the user mouses up to the button and
> pulls it down and chooses that item. So the script it OK... But, if
> the user puts his cursor into a fld and clicks cmd-A from the
> keyboard it doesn't work??
>

If the script is OK, then it has to be a key problem. Do you have a
commandKeyDown handler that could be blocking the command key? Or a
keyDown, keyUp, rawKeyDown or rawKeyUp handler that could be blocking
the 'A'?

Sarah



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