Silly Text Field Question

[Richmond]

Well, I missed something as well.

I just put this script in the cardScript:

on openCard
    set the autoTab of fld "f1" to true
    set the autoTab of fld "f2" to true
    set the autoTab of fld "f3" to true
    set the autoTab of fld "f4" to true
end openCard

and everything works . . . even if I did lose my temper several times.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rnnj9rxla17ij8j/Text%20Hop.livecode.zip?dl=0

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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