Arrow Keys on List Fields - The Selected/hilited Line

[Marty Knapp]

Perhaps there's a better way but here's what I do - I put the following 
in the card script and then my list processing in the list field itself:

on arrowKey which
    put word 2 of the selectedLine of fld "UserList" into tSelectedLine
    if tSelectedLine is empty then exit to top

    if which is "up" then
       if tSelectedLine >1 then --nothing less than line 1
          select line (tSelectedLine-1) of fld "UserList"
          send mouseDown to fld "UserList" --put list processing here
       end if

    else if which is "down" then
       if tSelectedLine <= the number of lines of fld "UserList" then
          select line (tSelectedLine+1) of fld "UserList"
          send mouseDown to fld "UserList" --put list processing here
       end if
    end if
end arrowKey

Best regards,
Marty
> If you use the arrow key on a list field, the selected line in the fld is the line that was selected before the arrow key
>
> So if you traverse a list up and down with the arrow keys, the selected line is always “one line behind” so to speak
>
> on arrowKey
>     put value (the selectedline of me) # is not the line you land on
>     pass arrowkey
> end arrowkey
>
> Is this a bug? If not a bug is there a simple way to get the value of the line the arrow key landed on and not the one that it just left behind? I can resort to parsing the line, determining if the user when up or down and then adding and subtracting 1… but that seems very hacky… is there a simpler way?
>
> BR
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