bringing a field of a sub-sub group to the for for editing

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 10:40:03 EST 2015


I have fields in generated pages which are editable.

The pages are constructed by placing groups, which in turn all belong to
another (turned out that, at least in the IDE, it is far, far faster to
delete that one group than to loop & delete).

Anyway, some of the fields can be multi-ine, and could end up with more
lines.

This all means that if I change the height of the field to the
formattedHeight, that the top portion will remain visible, but that the
bottom will be below the next formatted group.

I could do a big song & dance to raise and lower groups, but I'm thinking
it might be cleaner to have a separate stack that positions itself over the
single field, and then sets the text dispatches closeField or exitField to
the new field.  But this in turn means, I suppose, adjusting enterField in
general to send it its close messages.

Has anyone else dealt with something similar?

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Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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