Dispatch-Sending keyDown

[Richmond Mathewson]

DunbarX at aol.com wrote:
> Richard.
>
> I have a field with this in its script:
>
> on keydown var
>     dispatch "keydown" to this stack with var
> end keydown
>
> If I type into the field, no text appears. Just like my issue with "send", 
> keyDown is not passed to the engine. How did you make yours work?
>
> Craig
> _______________________________________________
>   
Well my name ISN'T 'Richard', but as I am wide awake I tried this:

on keyDown var
   put fld "fTEXT" & var into fld "fTEXT"
end keyDown

Bl**dy silly really as the cursor doesn't travel unless you do this:

on keyDown var
   put fld "fTEXT" & var into fld "fTEXT"
   select after fld "fTEXT"
end keyDown

I would just type into the field.

Objously I am missing something. . . .  do tell . . .  :)