Solution for closeField problem

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Jacque,
Thank you, again, for your help last night. I was about to give up on this 
when your email arrived. It inspired me to try a little harder (like all night, 
all morning, and most of the afternoon). I believe I now have a solution to 
closing fields on OS X without moving to other fields.

Here is all of the code (with many of the non-working attempts commented out 
- but retained for reference):

-- This was written because
-- OS X does not send a closeField
-- to the last (perhaps "only") field edited
-- if a button was clicked after the field was changed
-- (buttons do not get focus in OS X, so the field retains it);

on mouseDown
  if (the tool is "browse tool") \
       and ("Editor.ahm" is in the filename of this stack) \
      and (word 1 of the focusedObject is "field") \
       and (word 1 of the target is "button")
      --and (word 1 of the name of the target is not "field") -- use "button" 
only
   then
     --put the selectedField into vTempSelectedField
     --put the focusedObject into vTempField
    --put the short name of vTempSelectedField into vSelectedName
    --put the short name of vTempField into vTempName
     --send "closeField" to vTempField -- caused too much recursion
     
     --put the selection into vSelectionHolder -- preserve the selection
    focus on graphic "Floating Rectangle" -- removes the selection
     --put the selection into vSelectionHolder2
     
     --focus on ""
     --focus on empty
    --focus on btn "Lock Status"
    --set the traversalOn of vTempField to false
    --set the traversalOn of vTempField to true
    --defocus vTempField
    --deselect vTempField
     --       setTheEditorLockStatusTo "!"
  end if
   pass mouseDown
end mouseDown

The two secrets are:
1. trigger this when the focusedObject is a field and the target is a button 
(buttons only)
2. focus on a graphic (rather than a button or field)

So far, it seems to do everything as desired:
1. sends a "closeField" when a field is edited and a button is clicked
2. does not send the "closeField" if the field was focused but not edited
3. does not send any "closeField"s if a series of buttons are clicked
4. does not interfere with copy and paste.

Paul Looney


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