paste into field does not trigger closefield

[kee nethery]

On Jun 27, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

> On 27/6/06 19:54, kee nethery wrote:
>> On Jun 27, 2006, at 4:13 AM, Klaus Major wrote:
>>> you could catch the "pastekey" message like this one:
>>>
>>> on closefield
>>>   ##do your thing
>>> end closefield
>>>
>>> on pastekey
>>>   send "closefield" to me in 10 millisecs
>>>   pass pastekey
>>> end pastekey
>> It does not work for me in 2.6.1.
>> I tried it first in the stack script as a generic that would send  
>> closefield to the target and it never got called.
>> I moved it to the card script, same thing.
>> Moved it to the specific field and changed it from sending  
>> closefield to the target to sending it to me and that didn't get  
>> called.
>> Very strange.
>> Thanks for the advice, I'll play with this a bit longer to see why  
>> it is not working for me.
>
> You may well be on top of this, but just in case: note that  
> 'pasteKey' literally only catches using the keyboard shortcut to  
> paste; if the user uses "paste" from the standard edit menu, the  
> pasteKey message isn't sent.

arrrrg, thanks. That was not obvious to me, thanks, Kee