difference selectedline / hilitedline?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Thomas,

> Wouldn't it be better to write:
>  focus on  fld "foo"
> rather than:
> send "mouseUp" to fld "foo"
> since focus guaranties the focus but mouseUp does not?

But "mouseup" guarantees what Tiemo wanted:

>>>  the "correct" way to select a
>>> textline in a field, as if it would have been clicked by the mouse.

If that is what he wanted. :-)

> Tom McGrath
> On Sep 29, 2008, at 9:28 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
>> Hi Tiemo
>>> Hello,
>>> Which of the following both options is the "correct" way to select a
>>> textline in a field, as if it would have been clicked by the  
>>> mouse. I can't
>>> actually find any difference in the result.
>> I would prefer solution 1 plus another important line:
>>> set the hilitedline of field "foo" to 1
>> send "mouseup" to fld "foo"
>> ## to make if really behave like "have been clicked by the mouse" ;-)

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
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