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traversalOn doesn't seem to do anything with respect to the hilite problem but autoSelect does.

Is there a message I can trap in a control at start up so that I can set the state of the control?

If I set the traversalOn of a fld to false then I should not be able to tab into it, right? When I did ...

MotherHoose wrote:
I am not complaining about Rev...just my experiences with support! and inability to get results from my efforts to work with it.


So far your only two posts have been in this thread. Have you considered posting questions about using RunRev? I'm sure the good folks here would be ...

set autoSelect to false

When I set the locktext to true on a field the cursor stays the arrow but it still hilites the text. The hilited text cannot be copied with cmd-c. (the selectedtext does return the hilited text though).

How can I prevent the text in a locked field from being hilited?
Thanks,
Janey

This is slightly wrong. The backgroundBehavior property can turn a group into a "real" background.

What do you mean a "real" background?

Janey

woops I didn't read me replies before I posted.

It turns out I needed to set the lockfield to true. From the dictionary Comments:
When a field's lockText property is false, the field can be edited: the user can select text, delete text, type, cut, copy, and paste. The cursor becomes an I-beam when the mouse pointer is over the field. When the ...

Sure on mouseUp
beep
end mouseUp
Groups don't catch mouseUp messages by themselves. The message has to be caught by a button, field or card before it can be passed on to the group.

A card will pass on the mouseUp message to a group, only if the backgroundBehavior of the group is set to true (see ...

I made a group that has two entry fields in it. In the group I put a one line mouseUp subroutine (beep). When I click the group nothing beeps. What did I do wrong?