Problems with the focusedObject

[Graham Samuel]

Bonsoir Eric

The TraversalOn of my "Edit" button (the relevant one) is set to false.

I found out by experiment that 'the focusedObject' does work as  
expected if I have create a simple one-card stack with fields on the  
card and a button on the same card that examines the fields (I mean it  
has a script that displays the focusedObject). The focusedObject  
points to a field as long as the cursor is flashing in it, even when  
the field is empty and nothing in the field is actually selected: when  
there is text in the field, the focusedObject also points to it,  
whether the text is selected or not. I haven not yet looked at the  
selectedField, but I believe it works in the same way as the  
focusedObject.

I don't know why my original menu thing doesn't work, but it could be  
a side-effect of using GLX2 (I haven't tried it outside the  
development environment). I'll do some more research.

Graham

PS My 'France profonde' is about 20 km West of Carcassonne in the Aude  
- a village with less than 300 inhabitants. If you like, I can send  
you a picture (but not of course to this text-only list).

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:04:31 +0200, Eric Chatonet <eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com 
 > wrote:

> Bonsoir Graham,
>
> This just means that invoking your menu item deselects the selected
> field.
> Does you menu button has its traversalOn set to false?
>
> BTW, You speak about 'la France profonde': which one exactly?
> ;-)
>
> Le 19 sept. 08 à 18:55, Graham Samuel a écrit :
>
>> Bonjour Eric
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply. Sadly the selectedField returns empty
>> in the circumstances. I do find this very mysterious. For example,
>> if I put some text in a field and invoke my 'cut' menu, which
>> executes this script fragment from the menuPick handler dealing
>> with "Cut":
>>
>>            cut
>>            if clipboardData["text"] is not empty then
>>                put the selectedfield
>>                ....
>>
>> The clipboard data can be shown to be as expected (i.e. what was in
>> the field), but the selectedField is just empty.
>>
>> There must be some way for the handler in the menu to detect what
>> the cut (or paste or clear) operation was operating on, but I can't
>> find it.
>>
>> Best wishes from la France profonde
>>
>> Graham
>
> Best regards from Paris,
> Eric Chatonet.