artificially causing a field to be left in a script

dunbarx at aol.com dunbarx at aol.com
Tue Sep 25 23:20:11 EDT 2012


Hi.


I have a nagging feeling I am missing what you want.


When you say "clicks to go to the next data", what do you mean?


I thought your issue was leaving a field without changing its contents, which would indicate the use of "exitField", whereas "closeField" is sent only when the field contents have changed.


Craig Newman



-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Tue, Sep 25, 2012 9:47 pm
Subject: artificially causing a field to be left in a script


TO avoid pounding the database, my card full of data fields only saves
data if any has changed.  This is done by closeField setting a flag.

However, if someone changes data in one field, but then clicks to go
on to the next data, closefield is never reached.

If I can send a tab to the field with focus, it would solve the
problem--but what is the "safest" way to do this?

   send tabkey to the focusedObject

?

Or would be dispatch be better then send?

Or am I missing something here (that odd, nagging feeling at the back
of my head . . .)

-- 
Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
(702) 508-8462

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