selectedField in 2.7 not working

Thomas McGrath III 3mcgrath at adelphia.net
Thu Feb 16 08:25:18 EST 2006


David,

Hello,

It would appear that the selectedField is having trouble seeing the  
selected field. On Windows it doesn't see it at all but on the mac it  
sees it sometimes and this solution seems to work. Have you done this  
on windows?

Thanks for your response,

Tom

On Feb 16, 2006, at 8:06 AM, David Burgun wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Actually I found that "selectedField" was flakey in 2.6, it worked  
> in some places but not others. I found that doing this fixed it:
>
> local myField
> local myFieldNumber
>
> put the selectedField into myField
> put word 2 of myField into myFieldNumber
> put "f" after field myFieldNumber
>
> I this made a function to get the field number, so I could write:
>
> put "X" after field GetFieldNumber( the selectedField)
>
> Hope this helps
> All the Best
> Dave
>
> On 15 Feb 2006, at 23:40, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Has anyone found the function 'selectedField' no longer working  
>> after 2.7 upgrade?
>> My script is rather simple:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>> 	put "f" after the selectedField
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> This has worked flawlessly for some time in 2.6 and below.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> Thomas J McGrath III
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