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by jimboston
Tue Apr 24, 2012 3:39 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Troubleshooting self-clearing form fields
Replies: 2
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Re: Troubleshooting self-clearing form fields

figured it out, selectionChanged is sent anytime you click into a field and set the insertion point to anything other than the origin, it doesn't get sent with arrow key entry.
by jimboston
Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:46 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Troubleshooting self-clearing form fields
Replies: 2
Views: 1757

Re: Troubleshooting self-clearing form fields

ok I understand what is happening now, but not why. When I select a line in the DataGrid, the action handler for selectionChanged fires and runs my code to move data to the form fields, BUT when I then click on any of the form input text fields that have text in them selectionChanged is fired again....
by jimboston
Mon Apr 23, 2012 11:33 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Troubleshooting self-clearing form fields
Replies: 2
Views: 1757

Troubleshooting self-clearing form fields

So I've been playing with livecode, and am very impressed, I have found a mystery, or made a mistake though that I can't seem to solve. I have a group of fields (text input and one scrolling text box). The fields get populated when selecting a listing from a Datagrid and all is well. The weirdness i...