selectedField in 2.7 not working

David Burgun dburgun at dsl.pipex.com
Thu Feb 16 09:27:11 EST 2006


Hi Tom,

No, I only did this on Mac OS 10.4.

Cheers
Dave

On 16 Feb 2006, at 13:25, Thomas McGrath III wrote:

> David,
>
> Hello,
>
> It would appear that the selectedField is having trouble seeing the  
> selected field. On Windows it doesn't see it at all but on the mac  
> it sees it sometimes and this solution seems to work. Have you done  
> this on windows?
>
> Thanks for your response,
>
> Tom
>
> On Feb 16, 2006, at 8:06 AM, David Burgun wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Actually I found that "selectedField" was flakey in 2.6, it worked  
>> in some places but not others. I found that doing this fixed it:
>>
>> local myField
>> local myFieldNumber
>>
>> put the selectedField into myField
>> put word 2 of myField into myFieldNumber
>> put "f" after field myFieldNumber
>>
>> I this made a function to get the field number, so I could write:
>>
>> put "X" after field GetFieldNumber( the selectedField)
>>
>> Hope this helps
>> All the Best
>> Dave
>>
>> On 15 Feb 2006, at 23:40, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Has anyone found the function 'selectedField' no longer working  
>>> after 2.7 upgrade?
>>> My script is rather simple:
>>>
>>> on mouseUp
>>> 	put "f" after the selectedField
>>> end mouseUp
>>>
>>> This has worked flawlessly for some time in 2.6 and below.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> Thomas J McGrath III
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