Arrow Keys on List Fields - The Selected/hilited Line

[J. Landman Gay]

That's what I was going to suggest. The advantage is that selectionChanged 
works for everything: arrow keys, mouse clicks, taps on mobile, etc. And I 
think scripted changes too if I remember right.

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On April 22, 2016 5:53:26 PM BNig <bernd.niggemann at uni-wh.de> wrote:

> Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote
>> 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
>
> Would
>
> -------------
> on selectionChanged
>    put the hilitedText
> end selectionChanged
> -------------
>
> do what you want for a list field?
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bernd
>
>
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