Staying on a field
Bob Sneidar
bobs at twft.com
Wed May 4 12:52:11 EDT 2011
Is all this because you cannot focus on something in the middle of a closeField?
Bob
On May 3, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
> On 04/05/2011 02:14 PM, "Bill Vlahos" <bvlahos at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> on closeField
>> if me is not a date then
>> answer error "Not a valid date. Retry?" with "No" or "Yes"
>> if it is "Yes" then
>> focus on me
>> exit closeField
>> end if
>> end if
>> pass closeField
>> end closeField
>
> Bill - how about this?
>
> on closeField
> send checkMe to me in 0 millisecs
> end closeField
>
> on checkMe
> if me is not a date then
> answer error "Not a valid date. Retry?" with "No" or "Yes"
> if it is "Yes" then
> focus on me
> end if
> end if
> end checkMe
>
> Works fine if you're tabbing between fields but if you click on the card
> then the focus will stay with the field no matter what, whereas what you
> probably want to do (if you choose 'no') is to focus on nothing.
>
> Something like this maybe...
>
> on checkMe
> put the selectedChunk into tSelection
> if me is not a date then
> answer error "Not a valid date. Retry?" with "No" or "Yes"
> if it is "Yes" then
> focus on me
> else
> if tSelection is not empty then
> select tSelection
> else
> focus on nothing
> end if
> end if
> end if
> end checkMe
>
> HTH,
>
> Terry...
>
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> Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
> Medical Education Unit
> Melbourne Medical School
> The University of Melbourne
>
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