Populating fields with text

[gcamina]

Hi everyone,

I know how to populate fields with text at the click of a button when there is only one field on a card.

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on mouseUp
   put "mytext" after field "myfield"
end mouseUp

But how can you choose which field must be populated when you have more than one on the same card?

Thanks in advance,

[Klaus]

Hi gcamina,

well, YOU as the developer should know this!

Or do you want the user decide where to add text with a "mouseclick"?
This would require a nice and intuitive UI (user interface).
To be honest, I have never seen such an UI in an app.

Why not let the user add the text himself by typing into the field?
Or do the fields have to be locked?

Ah, and welcome to the forum!


Best

Klaus

[gcamina]

Thanks Klaus,

But it's not thaaaaat easy See, my students need to input Spanish words using an English keyboard, which is not always the best thing, so, nice as I am I've created a keyboard with special characters. You know, those annoying accented vowels, plus "ñ" and the opening question and exclamation marks of Spanish, all of it in lower and upper cases. The keyboard floats beautifully over all the fields they need to populate but I don't know how to "write" on the right/focused field when clicking one of the buttons.

Any help?

[Klaus]

Hi gcamina (g-shirt? )

maybe you could use "the selectedfield"?
...
put "whatever" after the selectedfield
...

Best

Klaus

[gcamina]

Just that???

Oh jeez, this LiveCode can be frustrating at times!!! I've tried all kinds of stupid possibilities before asking for help. Grrr. I´ll use that then, thanx again.

Oh, I guess you mean "camisa" for shirt

[Klaus]

Hi gcamina,

Just that???

Yes, don't shoot the messenger!

Check these stacks to get more "aha" effects:
http://www.runrev.com/developers/lesson ... nferences/

Oh, I guess you mean "camisa" for shirt

Ouch, yes, sure


Best

Klaus

[dunbarx]

Hi.

It is always a good thing when you find that the answer is so simple, native, and obvious. The beauty of LiveCode.

And it is true that there are a lot of words to learn.

Craig Newman

[gcamina]

Needless to say that the solution proposed by Klaus worked smoothly at the first attempt

As a self-imposed punishment I'm doing extra homework with the conferences and the dictionary, so I won't embarrass myself with waaaay too basic questions anymore -- I will, no doubt about that

The quality of the small but useful apps I'm creating with my almost non-existing scripting ability is simply outstanding. I'm becoming addicted to LC!!

Thanks for all the help and the prompt replies.

Gonzalo