Why can't I send tabKey?

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Damn,

two mails now that Ken has "hijacked" over my previous answers to this 
list...

Am i wasting my time writing answers to see others rewrite them over 
again?

Dan,

See the first response to your mail, it resolves this issue one handed... 
Why
mess with the rest?

In addition, if you want to send this to a field in particular and still 
use a generic
card/stack level handler, here's the way

on opencard
  doTabKey afield -- note the new parameter...
end OpenCard

on doTabKey afield
  select line 1 of field afield
  or whathaveyou
end doTabKey 

Or you could just say
on opencard
  select line 1 of field 1 

why go into all these hoops and loops when there's a simple solution?

Xavier


use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 11/08/2005 18:46:52:

> Ken....
> 
> While "type tabKey" doesn't generate an error, it also doesn't do 
> what I think it should.
> 
> In my book, I had a script:
> 
> on openCard
>    type tabKey
> end openCard
> 
> I suggested that if you did this, you could force the first field (in 
> tab order, of course) on a card to be active when a new card opens. 
> Doesn't work (though I could *swear* I tested it in 1.1.1 or whatever 
> version was current when I wrote the book two years ago). Nothing 
> happens. So I don't know if the tabKey is actually being typed or not 
> but if it is, it's not doing what I think tabbing SHOULD do.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Aug 11, 2005, at 8:08 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
> 
> > On 8/11/05 1:37 AM, "Dan Shafer" <revdan at danshafer.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> But if I try to send tabKey, with or without quotation marks and with
> >> or without a target, I always get a "can't find handler" error.
> >>
> >
> > That's because 'tabKey' isn't treated as a handler... it's treated 
> > as a
> > keystroke. You need to "type tabkey" instead of "send". I think 
> > this would
> > be the same as functionKey, etc. But I agree with you - if it is a 
> > handler
> > that can be trapped, it should be able to be "sent". So I'd still 
> > BZ it.
> >
> > Ken Ray
> > Sons of Thunder Software
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> > Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> >
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