Silly Text Field Question

[Mike Bonner]

Yeah, it is probably wiser to increase the delay as you did to be safe (if
you decided to use the method)  This is another thing that would be nice as
a settable property.  "set the autohilite of field "whatever" to true"

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:07 PM, Peter Reid <preid at reidit.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks Mike & Richmond.
>
> Mike – your solution provides the behaviour I'm after but does seem to
> live on the edge of a runaway loop!  I increased the millisec delay from 1
> to 5 to try to reduce the potential for a runaway situation:
>
> local sHilitedelay
>
> on openField
>    if sHilitedelay is empty then put the millisec into sHilitedelay
>    if the millisec - sHilitedelay > 5 then send "hiliteText" to the target
> in 0 millisec
> end openField
>
> on hiliteText
>   select the text of the target
>   put the millisec into sHilitedelay
> end hiliteText
>
>
> Richmond – your solution matches the keyboard tabbing behaviour I'm after
> but not the mouse selection behaviour.
>
>
> My own further idea was the following in the card script:
>
> on openField
>    -- on tabbing into a field highlight its current content:
>    hiliteText
> end openField
>
> on mouseEnter
>    -- on mousing into/across a field highlight its current content:
>    hiliteText
> end mouseEnter
>
> on hiliteText
>    put the id of the target into tID
>    if there is a field id tID then
>       -- select the text of field objects only:
>       select the text of the target
>    end if
> end hiliteText
>
> The above almost does what I want, but not quite. This method allows the
> user to use either the tab key on the keyboard or the mouse pointer to
> select another field. As the new field is selected, its current content is
> hilited ready to be replaced by any keystrokes.
>
> Note that the user must simply move the mouse pointer into (or across) the
> new field but NOT click into it. When the user does click the mouse, it
> behaves normally and places the insertion point in the current content at
> the position of the mouse pointer at the moment of the click.
>
> As with Mike's approach, the script for this behaviour is in the card
> script to provide the default behaviour for all fields on the card.
>
> Peter
> --
> Peter Reid
> Loughborough, UK
>
> > On 20 Sep 2016, at 10:14pm, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
> >
> > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 07:07:42 -0600
> > From: Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com>
> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> > Subject: Re: Silly Text Field Question
> > Message-ID:
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> >
> > Try this..
> >
> > local sHilitedelay
> >
> > on openField
> >
> > -- sHilitedelay is used to avoid a weird side effect when regaining stack
> > focus
> > -- by clicking on a field in the card.  If a field other than the
> > previously selected
> > -- is clicked, it can start a runaway loop. The delay solves this
> problem.
> > -- when experimenting you might put in a "if the shiftkey is down then
> exit
> > to top"
> > -- so you can break out of the loop if necessary, though the delay does
> > appear to solve it fine.
> >   if sHilitedelay is empty then put the millisec into sHilitedelay
> >
> > -- use send in time so that all the housekeeping is completed before you
> > try to hilite
> >   if the millisec - sHilitedelay > 1 then send "hiliteText" to the target
> > in 0 millisec
> >
> > end openField
> >
> > on hiliteText
> >   select the text of the target
> >   put the millisec into sHilitedelay
> > end hiliteText
>
> >
> > On 20 Sep 2016, at 10:14pm, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
> >
> > Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 23:29:25 +0300
> > From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> > Subject: Re: Silly Text Field Question
> > Message-ID: <3960ebe8-2e97-572a-941f-b96a97345904 at gmail.com>
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> >
> > 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.
> >
>
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