why does this not work and how do you do it?
Mark Schonewille
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com
Thu Apr 10 05:06:01 EDT 2008
Hi Peter,
No, I don't think this is specific to Linux. There are similar
problems on Mac OS X.
"The other odd thing" might be yet another bug in Rev or a problem in
your script. You might want to tell us more about it.
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
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On 10 apr 2008, at 08:36, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>
> Jacque and Mark - thanks, "select the text of" does indeed work. I'd
> previously
> tried 'select after' which did not work.
>
> It must definitely be a bug then, and apparently specific to the Linux
> build?
> Its a very specific problem. Its not that focus on field does not
> work. On
> the
> same screen I have a backup handler at card level to trap
> miscellaneous
> mouse clicks and
> restore focus to the field. That one does work fine.
>
<snip>
>
>
> The other odd thing about this is, there is a card script which
> just does
> focus on field
> if there is a mouse up. This works fine if you click anywhere on the
> screen. But it does
> not work if it is invoked by 'send mouseUp to this card'.
>
>
> Peter
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