Selection Embarrassment

[Jim Bufalini]

Hi Craig,

There is an old joke. A man goes to a doctor and says it hurts every time I
raise my arm up high and in this fashion. The doctor says, then don't do
that anymore. ;-)

Jokes aside, it's been my experience that due to nature of the message box
and what it must do, there are quite a number of things that don't work the
same when executed out of the message box.

So, while it may initially appear "quicker" to test out of the message box,
I find, in the long run, that when working with something I am unfamiliar
with, it takes less time to create a button and test out of a button and
reserve message box use for things I am familiar with and already know work
from the message box.

This may not be satisfying from a purist point of view, but like the
doctor's advice, it is pragmatic.

Aloha from Hawaii,

Jim Bufalini


> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of DunbarX at aol.com
> Sent: Friday, March 20, 2009 3:20 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Selection Embarrassment
> 
> I am running into the most basic of roadBlocks.
> 
> I have an editible text field with some text in it. In HC, from the
> message
> box, if I write;
> 
> select line 2 of fld myField (or select anyChunk of fld myField)
> 
> I get a hilited line. (hilited chunk)
> 
> In Rev, I can only get this from a handler, NOT from the msg box. From
> msg, I
> get a flash at the chunk I am referencing, but nothing holds, no
> selection,
> no blinking cursor. If I do it from a button, say, it works just fine.
> Drove me
> nuts.
> 
> I know less every day.
> 
> Craig Newman
> 
> 
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