group with an editable textfield - select the group when clicking in the textfield

[runrev at animabit.de]

Hi

Wie make a tool for churches for making their web pages without any knowledge of HTML, images etc.

I use many groups on a card symbolizing the elements of the webpage f.e.

a group with a textfield
one with an image
one with fields organized as table in rows etc.
one with a calender symbol ...

http://animabit.de/pfarrtemplate.de/anichurch001.jpg
http://animabit.de/pfarrtemplate.de/anichurch002.jpg

and the user can reorganize the objects by drag& drop etc.

My little problem: I have a script for selecting the group when clicking on any target contained in this group. It does work fine but not with editable textfields. When I click with the right mouse on the textfield, the mousedown handler works immediately - but the cursor is not in the textfield for typing. If I click with the left mouse the cursor is in the field but the mousedown handler does not work and the last selected group (for example the one with the image) stays selected. My script which does the work:

on mousedown mouseButtonNumber
if the name of the target contains "hintergrund" then
-- do nothing
else
grab the owner of target -- for moving around the group
select control (the owner of target) 
open stack "objektbrowser" as palette
put the short name of the owner of the target into field 1 of stack "objektbrowser"
put the typ of the owner of the target into field 2 of stack "objektbrowser"
end if
end mousedown 

I tried the following 

on openfield
mousedown
pass openfield
end openfield

but in this case I could click in the textfield, the mousedown handler worked and the group was selected ... but the focus of the cursor in the textfield has even been lost (as when clicking with the right mouse).

If I do it manually in 2 steps it is possible => it should be possible by programming also. Click
first with the right mouse (= mousedown works and the group is selected) 
second with the left mouse (the cursor is in the field but no mousedown handler is sent)
then the group stays selected AND the cursor is in the textfield for further typing.

How to do this?

Regards, Franz
Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Franz Böhmisch

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