How do I check which field has the focus on / is active?

William de Smet williamdesmet at gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 14:25:25 EST 2009


@ Jan, Klaus and Sarah: the dentist pulled my tooth (bummer) but your
answer solved my little 'problem'.
Must have been the tootache :-) Thanks!

Greetings,

William

2009/11/2 Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com>:
> Hope your tooth is better now.
>
> I think you need to use both solutions.
> Jan suggests setting the button's traversalOn to false so that it
> doesn't become the focusedObject when clicked.
> Klaus points out that you need to use the short name of the
> selectedField for your current script to work.
>
> If you put both these solutions together, then I think it should work,
> but if not, please post more details and we can trya gain.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:37 PM, William de Smet
> <williamdesmet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jan & Klaus,
>>
>> None of your answers works for me :-)
>> Must be something else then that is bugging me.
>> Could be the dentist! Got to go there within the hour because of an
>> awful toothache.
>>
>> to be continued....
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> William
>>
>> 2009/10/30 Klaus Major <klaus at major.on-rev.com>:
>>> Hi William,
>>>
>>>> Hi there all,
>>>>
>>>> How do I check which has the focus on / is the active one?
>>>> When I use: 'answer the selectedField' it shows me the correct field
>>>> but when I put the next code into a button it doesn't work anymore:
>>>> --
>>>> on mouseUp
>>>> put the name of the selectedField into tData
>>>>
>>>> if tData = "number1"
>>>> then send mouseup to btn "check"
>>>> ...
>>>> end mouseUp
>>>
>>> ...
>>> put the name of the selectedField into tData
>>> ...
>>>
>>> If you look at the content of the variable "tDate" you will see something
>>> like this:
>>> FIELD "Name of field here..."
>>> !!!
>>>
>>> So if you change the line to:
>>> ...
>>> put the SHORT name of the selectedField into tData
>>> ...
>>> your script will run as exspected :-)
>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Thanks!
>>>> Greetings, William
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Klaus
>>>
>>> --
>>> Klaus Major
>>> http://www.major-k.de
>>> klaus at major.on-rev.com
>>>
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