OpenField mystery

[Peter Haworth]

That's been an issue on Macs forever.  If you're in a field and then click
a button, the field doesn't lose focus so no closeField is sent.  I believe
the way to get round it is to "focus on nothing" in the mouseUp code of the
button (or the mouseDown).

Pete
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:

> I think the bug is still there: I just created a stack with one button and
> one field. I can edit the field and then immediately click the button, but
> the 'closeField' doesn't fire unless I make it do so explicitly, for
> example with a 'returnInField' handler, or if the whole stack loses focus
> and then gets it back.
>
> So I plan to report it.
>
> Thanks for the confirmation that it is indeed a bug.
>
> Graham
>
> On 23 Aug 2014, at 23:22, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>
> > On 8/23/2014, 3:02 PM, Graham Samuel wrote:
> >> It is quite possible for him (her) not to close the last revised
> >> field, but simply to go straight to clicking the button. This means
> >> that I can't rely on a 'closeField' message being generated even when
> >> a field is modified!
> >
> > Hm, that's an old bug that I thought got fixed. I remember a while back
> noticing that a closefield was sent. If it's broken again, consider putting
> in a bug report on it.
> >
> > If I remember right, I used to do this in the button:
> >
> > if the selectedfield <> "" then send "closefield" to the selectedfield
> >
> > but it was a long time ago.
> >
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