on tabKey - what field contains the blinking curser?

[J. Landman Gay]

This seems to work:

on tabKey
   send "doSelect" to me in 1
   pass tabKey
end tabKey

on doSelect
   select after the selectedfield
end doSelect

On 4/26/17 7:21 PM, Roger Eller via use-livecode wrote:
> When I tab to the next field, I want to select after the field content, or
> in other words place the blinking bar at the end of whatever is already
> there.  By default, it is placing it in front of the field content.
>
> On Apr 26, 2017 6:14 PM, "J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> On 4/26/17 3:58 PM, Roger Eller via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>>> How do I discover the name of the field which has received focus (blinking
>>> edit bar cursor) when the tabKey is pressed?
>>>
>>
>> One way:
>>
>> on openfield
>>   put the name of the target
>> end openfield
>>
>> I'm not sure if you want to trap a message though. The selectedField will
>> return identification if you're querying from inside another handler.
>>
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