Pre-select / highlight list field lines on cardOpen?

[Scott Rossi]

If I understand what you¹re asking, I think you want the hilitedLines (or
hilitedLine) property.

  set the hilitedLines of field ³myList" to 3 -- hilite the 3rd line

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design




On 3/15/15, 3:50 PM, "Keith Clarke" <keith.clarke at me.com> wrote:

>Folks,
>I¹m using the selected lines of a list field as a simple filter. However,
>when I navigate from the card & return, the selected lines are forgotten
>- so the filter has to be reset manually.
>
>So, I¹ve added a script to trap the selections & save to stack-level
>custom properties, so they¹re available on cardOpen...
>
>on mouseUp
>   put the selectedText of me into tScheduleFieldSelected
>   set the ScheduleFieldSelected of this stack to tScheduleFieldSelected
>end mouseUp
>
>Š but I¹m struggling with errors on the openCard script to set the
>selected lines... 
>
>on openCard
>   // Set the Extract folder
>   
>   // Get the CSV files into memory
>   
>   // Get Selected Field
>   put the ScheduleFieldSelected of this stack into tScheduleFieldSelected
>   
>   repeat for each line tField in field ScheduleFields
>      if tField is among the lines of tScheduleFieldSelected then
>highlight tField
>   end repeat
>end openCard
>
>LiveCode errors with ...(Handler: can't find handler) near ³highlight²...
>
>Is this a simple syntax issue or is it not possible to select / highlight
>list field lines via code? I can¹t find anything in the documentation or
>Google on forcing selection in lists.
>Thanks & regards,
>Keith.. 
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