Silly Text Field Question

[Richmond]

Maybe I'm being a bit thick, but . . .

I have a stack with four textFields and this script in the cardScript:

on tabkey
    put the id of the selected fld into FLDN
    set the selected fld FLDN to not the selected fld FLDN
end tabkey

Which means that every time I press my TAB key the selection point 
(cursor) hops along
to the next field.

What I seem quite unable to do susequently, is select the text of the 
field the cursor is within.

Richmond.

On 20.09.2016 10:43, Peter Reid wrote:
> I know I'm missing the obvious but I just can't figure out how to get the following behaviour with text fields...
>
> 1. When the user presses the tab key on the keyboard, the next field is selected and the current content of the next field is selected (so any typing replaces all the content).
>
> 2. If the user uses the mouse to click into a different text field, the current content of the next field is selected and behaves just like 1.
>
> What's happening is that I can get 1. to work but every time the user mouse-clicks into a different field, that target field gets selected but its content is deselected and the I-bar insertion point is placed where the mouse click occurred.
>
> So far I've got the following in the card script to provide the same behaviour for all the fields on it:
>
> on openField
>   hiliteText
> end openField
>
> on hiliteText
>   put the id of the target into tID
>   if there is a field id tID then
>     select the text of the target
>   end if
> end hiliteText
>
> Any suggestions please?
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter Reid
> Loughborough, UK
>
>
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