Arrow Keys moving Objects

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Peter:

Thanks for sharing your angst! Helps me to know I'm not alone and that  
one of the true geniuses of this list will manifest a wonderfully  
simple, universal solution. Now I'm wondering, whether all of the key  
actions you mentioned as being erratic should be allowed to be so  
problematic in the first place. For navigation purposes CommandKeys  
and ArrowKeys are fundamental to the GUI. They've just got to work  
predictably and without trouble. WHY is this such a big deal?????

Joe Wilkins

On May 15, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote:

> 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:
>
> ****
> 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
> ****
>
> On May 14, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Randall Reetz wrote:
>
> ****
> 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.
> ****
>
> "Terry Judd" <tsj at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> ****
> 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...
> ****
>
> "Joe Lewis Wilkins" <pepetoo at cox.net> wrote:
>
> ****
> 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
> ****