list field not getting arrowkey msg

[Mike Bonner]

Having a line hilited isn't enough.  It seems you MUST have an insertion
point of some type.  Either select the line lineNbr, or if there is nothing
selected, set the selectedchunk to char 1 to 0 of me


On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 21, 2015, at 2:07 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Having found that the focus is on the card, for reasons best known to
> the
> >> engine (certainly not to me),
> >>
> >
> > What does the Message Watcher say? If on clicking on a line in the fld
> > fires a salvo of messages, somewhere - frontscript, backscript, card or
> > stack script a handler is being fired that sends the focus elsewhere;
> > apparently the card.
> >
> > Do a global script search for 'go', 'send', 'select' and 'focus'. There
> are
> > probably other ways to remove the focus but those come readily to mind.
>
> I don't see anything in my mouseup script that would change the focus:
>
> on mouseup tBtn
>    select empty
>    -- putting "focus on me" here doesn't fix the problem
>    put getGridCell() into g -- doesn't go to or select anything
>    put item 1 of g into lineNbr
>    put item 2 of g into colNbr
>    if lineNbr = empty then
>       exit mouseup
>    else
>       set the hilitedline of me to lineNbr
>       -- this should put the focus in the field
>    end if
>    put line lineNbr of me into listEntry
>    put getItem(listEntry, 1, tab) into noteTitle
>    -- doesn't go to or select anything
>    displayNote noteTitle
>    -- fetches a customprop and puts it into the display field
>    -- but this shouldn't move the focus
>    -- putting "focus on me" here doesn't fix the problem
>    if tBtn <> 3 then exit mouseup
>    put popChoose("rename","delete") into u
>    switch u
>       case "rename"
>          renameNote noteTitle
>          break
>       case "delete"
>          answer "Are you sure you want to delete this note? This is not
> undo-able!" with "OK" or "whoops!" \
>                as sheet
>          if it is not "OK" then exit to top
>          deleteNote lineNbr, noteTitle
>          break
>    end switch
> end mouseup
>
> I'll take a look at the messagewatcher when I get a chance.
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
>
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