Ask does not wait for an answer

[Martin Blackman]

Your script seems to work fine here for me
Is there another handler that might be interfering?
Is "ship date 1" the same field that is receiving the closefield ? I assumed
so


On 08/02/06, simplsol at aol.com <simplsol at aol.com> wrote:
>
> I hope there is a simple answer to this. I have the following code in a
> field:
>
> on closeField
> if fld "Ship Date 1" is empty
> then
> ask "Enter a date for this shipment:" with the short date
> if the result is "Cancel" then exit closeField
> put it into fld "Ship Date 1"
> end if
> end closeField
>
> If I step through it in the debugger, it works as expected.
> If I trigger it by closing the field, it will show the Ask dialog box,
> and, as it does so, it will put:
>
> ask plainEnter a date for this shipment:2/7/6
>
> into field "Ship Date 1" - without waiting for either the OK or Cancel
> buttons being clicked in the Ask dialog.
> I have written this several different way (different if/then
> constructions, etc.) nothing seems to work, and I can't debug it
> because it works perfectly in the debugger.
>
> I appreciate you help.
> Paul Looney
>
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