closeField - Curious

[Bill Vlahos]

I agree completely. It would be good to have a message sent whenever the field changes for any reason.

Bill Vlahos
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On Dec 18, 2010, at 11:53 PM, pete at mollysrevenge.com wrote:

> Lots of input on this already but the bottom line is that closeField does
> not get sent unless the user, not a script, changes the contents of a
> field.  In your example, if the script of your button changes the content
> of a field, no closeField event will be generated. I get round this by
> sending a closeField message to the field after I've set the contents by
> script.  That way you can do whatever you want whether the user changes
> the contents or the script.
> 
> Personally, I think this implementation is wrong.  There are other events
> like this, selectionChanged for example, and I have not come across a
> single circumstance in any of my code where I did NOT want those events to
> be generated when I did things in a script rather than the user doing
> them.  What I'd like to see is something similar to the menuHistory and
> label property of a button.  Change the label of a button by script -
> menuPick doesn't happen.  Change the menuHistory by script - menuPick does
> happen.
> 
> Pete
> 
> On Sat, December 18, 2010 1:57 pm, Mike Kerner wrote:
>> OK, if I understand previous threads correctly, closeField does not get
>> send
>> when you click on a button.  So what happens if you click on a button that
>> does something that causes the field to lose the focus - e.g. navigating
>> to
>> another card, putting different text in the field, selecting the text of
>> another field, etc. what then?
>> 
>> I guess I need a better explanation of when closeField does and does not
>> get
>> sent.
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