Solution for closeField problem

[Ken Ray]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:05:14 -0400, Michael Binder wrote:

> Paul wrote:
>> The problem occurs when the user clicks a button, or uses the menu to
>> leave the card. On OS X the closeField command is not sent when leaving
>> a field under these circumstances - the field never loses focus.
>> 
>> Is there a good way to send a message (like closeField) when the user
>> edits a field then clicks elsewhere?
> 
> Ken wrote:
>> Ah, now I understand... if you select from the menu, you're doing a
>> mouseDown on the button that drops the Edit menu, which would trigger
>> the "select empty" and remove the hilite from the currently selected
>> text so there's nothing to copy.
>> 
>> So I guess the "select empty" fix would have to check to see if the
>> object you're mousing down on is a button in a menugroup.
> 
> So then, 'select empty' does work in the mousedown of non menu buttons?
> For menu buttons, how about just putting the 'select empty' in the
> menupick handler?

Well the original problem was triggering a closeField in a field with 
the insertion point on OS X when clicking on a button. So in the case 
of menu buttons, you *don't* want it to select empty, but to leave the 
insertion point where it is. So for all buttons other than those in a 
menugroup, you'd execute a select empty (easier in a frontscript), but 
exclude menu buttons. Something like this frontscript:

on mouseDown
  if (the short name of the owner of the target <> the menubar of the 
defaultStack) then
    select empty
  end if
  pass mouseDown
end mouseDown


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
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