list field not getting arrowkey msg

[Peter Brigham]

Unfortunately, I still get nothing with "the hilitedlines of me" in the
field script. The arrowkey message is not going to the field.

Here's the arrowkey handler in the card script. This works fine but I don't
know why it should be necessary.

on arrowkey what
   put hilitedline of fld "notesList" into lineNbr
   put the number of lines of fld "notesList" into totNbr
   switch what
      case "left"
      case "right"
         pass arrowkey
         break
      case "up"
         if lineNbr = 1 then
            put totNbr into nextLineNbr
         else
            put lineNbr - 1 into nextLineNbr
         end if
         break
      case "down"
         if lineNbr = nextLineNbr then
            put 1 into nextLineNbr
         else
            put lineNbr + 1 into nextLineNbr
         end if
         break
   end switch
   set the hilitedline of fld "notesList" to nextLineNbr
   put line nextLineNbr of fld "notesList" into listEntry
   put getItem(listEntry, 1, tab) into noteTitle
   displayNote noteTitle
   pass arrowkey
end arrowkey

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:14 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 7/19/2015 10:17 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
>
>>
>> There is a line selected. If I put the following into the field script:
>>
>> on arrowkey
>>     put the hilitedlines
>> end arrowkey
>>
>> then click in the field to select a line, then hit up- or
>> down-arrowkey, nothing happens. The field is apparently not getting the
>> arrowkey message. It's acting as though the traversalon of the field is
>> false, but it's not.
>>
>
>
> What do you get if you put this into the field script:
>
> on mouseUp
>  put the hilitedlines of me
> end mouseUp
>
> BTW, I think your arrowkey test needs "of the target". Hilitedlines
> without an object reference is probably always empty.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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