list field not getting arrowkey msg

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Jul 20 15:14:07 EDT 2015


But did you try a mouseUp handler? I'm curious if the field is 
recognized in any way.

On 7/20/2015 1:47 PM, Peter Brigham wrote:
> Unfortunately, I still get nothing with "the hilitedlines of me" in the
> field script. The arrowkey message is not going to the field.
>
> Here's the arrowkey handler in the card script. This works fine but I don't
> know why it should be necessary.
>
> on arrowkey what
>     put hilitedline of fld "notesList" into lineNbr
>     put the number of lines of fld "notesList" into totNbr
>     switch what
>        case "left"
>        case "right"
>           pass arrowkey
>           break
>        case "up"
>           if lineNbr = 1 then
>              put totNbr into nextLineNbr
>           else
>              put lineNbr - 1 into nextLineNbr
>           end if
>           break
>        case "down"
>           if lineNbr = nextLineNbr then
>              put 1 into nextLineNbr
>           else
>              put lineNbr + 1 into nextLineNbr
>           end if
>           break
>     end switch
>     set the hilitedline of fld "notesList" to nextLineNbr
>     put line nextLineNbr of fld "notesList" into listEntry
>     put getItem(listEntry, 1, tab) into noteTitle
>     displayNote noteTitle
>     pass arrowkey
> end arrowkey
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 2:14 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 7/19/2015 10:17 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> There is a line selected. If I put the following into the field script:
>>>
>>> on arrowkey
>>>      put the hilitedlines
>>> end arrowkey
>>>
>>> then click in the field to select a line, then hit up- or
>>> down-arrowkey, nothing happens. The field is apparently not getting the
>>> arrowkey message. It's acting as though the traversalon of the field is
>>> false, but it's not.
>>>
>>
>>
>> What do you get if you put this into the field script:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>   put the hilitedlines of me
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> BTW, I think your arrowkey test needs "of the target". Hilitedlines
>> without an object reference is probably always empty.
>>
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>>
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