Arrow Keys moving Objects

[Peter Brigham MD]

To me, managing the focus is one of the truly bedeviling problems in  
Rev. Sometimes commandkey strokes don't work -- when you have a  
commandkeydown handler in the stack script and the focus somehow has  
gotten place somewhere else. If it's in a field, you can often track  
it down, but sometimes (depending on what the user has been doing with  
various clicks) the focus ends up on something obscure, like a button,  
or worse, someplace totally untrackable. No matter how I try to manage  
the focus, at some point my arrowkey strokes or commandkey/controlkey  
strokes unpredictably just vanish somewhere in the message path. I  
have finally resorted to using a frontscript to manage modifer  
keystrokes or arrowkeys. What do others do? There must be some tricks  
I'm missing.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

On 5/14/09, Joe Lewis Wilkins  wrote:

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Thanks Guys. Just glad my memory hadn't gone on the fritz. I still  
can't see why it's not working for me now, but not worth worrying  
about so long as I know it'll eventually work.

Joe Wilkins
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On May 14, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Randall Reetz wrote:

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Right, the official object of focus isnt influenced by what the  
developer or user is looking at at any particular moment (no matter  
how hard one looks at something). This has tripped me up a million  
times. Then the question is how to make sure (by script) that the  
object of interest is the object of focus.
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"Terry Judd" <tsj at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

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Joe - the arrow keys work fine here with 3.5. Are you sure there isn't  
something else that has focus (like a field in the property inspector  
or the message box) that could be eating up the arrowkey message?

Terry...
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"Joe Lewis Wilkins" <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:

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Whom-so-ever:

I seem to recall that if you have an object selected in the IDE that  
you can adjust its location a pixel at a time with the arrow keys. In  
3.5 it no longer does that. Is there a preference someplace that turns  
that off?

Joe Wilkins
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