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Update: That was some simple. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. My application is now doing what is required. hence, a rare and self-indulgent :) Thanks to all of you who were gracious enough to take the time to address what turned out to be a very silly problem. I really need to think about inheritan...

Ahhhhh.... (lightbulb moment!)
Checking it now
Thanks

Curiouser and curiouser.. I go through the setup. OK click start - OK (btw ? works at any time all it does is update elapsed time in red) keep recording keypresses... then click once over the data field. For me, from now, all key presses disappear into the void. This is in interpreted mode. Also in ...

I forgot to say - the "Event:" text was removed because it was simpler for the downstream statisticians to handle the file without spurious text!

Simon, thanks so much for your time... The key line is in the on keyDown switch, default handler... put theKey & tab & round(keyTime/1000,2) & return after card field "data" Now try this. When recording, click on the field "data". Where are all my events going? I think the expression 'card field' (w...

I tried to redo the app from the beginning, and it works, sort of! It is all about having the focus in the right place (i.e nowhere). It works, but one set up keypress too many, and it fails. I'd like to ask some kind soul if they could help. I'd send them the .livecode file. Actually, just realised...

I think I understand a bit about datagrids, but what I'd really like is th ability to use it as a device to allow entry of data in column,row format, for further processing, purely during that instance of the data. User enters data, completing all cells in each row user processes data via a button p...