focus question

[Mark Smith]

Sounds like some weekend homework to me :-)

 I'll let you know how I make out. 

-- Mark


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From: use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com [use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Bob Sneidar [bobs at twft.com]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 12:07 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: focus question

I have had the idea in the past to use a property to define whether or not a field should place the cursor at the beginning, end or last selection of a field upon entering it. Shouldn't be hard to do. Make 2 properties in each field, focusSelection, lastSelection and read/update these accordingly upon openField and exitField (closeField mind you that only gets sent when something changes). Keep in mind that before getting the focusSelection upon openField you would need to check to see if the properties already exist and create them if they didn't.

For extra credit, allow the user to change the behavior with a right click on the field object. I'd do it myself, but I am too doggone lazy.

Bob


On Dec 6, 2010, at 7:11 AM, Walt Brown wrote:

> I have had to use "Select after char -1 of fld X". I was actually using it
> to place the cursor at various character positions in a field in a
> rawKeyDown handler - I was using predictive lookup in rawKeyDown as a field
> validation technique, playing around after David, Mark, and BvG's EXCELLENT
> LiveCode V session yesterday.
>
> An example is in the last field of my attached test stack.
>
> Walt


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