hide a field when clicking/tapping outside of it

[keram]

Hi,

I have card with number of buttons labels and fields. One of the fields is for selection of fonts (fld "fonts"). When clicking or tapping on it fonts are selected and the field gets hidden. I'd like to make it possible to hide that field with click/tap outside of it.

I grouped all the objects (except the font field) on that card (grp "settingsGroup") and put the code below on the group level

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on mouseUp
   put the effective rect of fld "fonts" into tHideFonts
   if the mouseH < item 1 of tHideFonts or the mouseH > item 3 of tHideFonts \ 
         or the mouseV < item 2 of tHideFonts or the mouseV > item 4 of tHideFonts then hide fld "fonts"
end mouseUp

+ this code on the card level

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on mouseUp
   send mouseUp to grp "settingsGroup"
end mouseUp

then it works except for the buttons on the card.

I could put the same code in each button on the card, but would prefer to make it with least coding, preferably on one place.

How to make it?

keram

[jmburnod]

Hi Keram

it works except for the buttons on the card.

Mouserelease ?

[keram]

Hi Jean-Marc,

From Dictionary about mouseRelease: "Sent when the user releases the mouse outside the control that was clicked."
So that requires a tap/click on the fld "fonts" to start with and that's what I want to avoid. The user should be able to tap outside the field to hide it.

Thanks anyway.

keram

[Klaus]

Hi Keram,

do the buttons in your group have a "mouseup" handler on their own?
If yes, you need to add "pass mouseup" at the end of that handler.


Best

Klaus

[keram]

Thanks Klaus,

Yes, they do. In some cases that addition of "pass mouseUp" helped. This is in cases where the handler puts in a text into a field for example. But in cases where there is are command go or answer it does not work. But it's not a big deal, there are just few of these buttons and I can code them individually with this:

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      if  visible of fld "fonts" of cd "settingsandfiles" is true then
      put the effective rect of fld "fonts" into tHideFonts
      if the mouseH < item 1 of tHideFonts or the mouseH > item 3 of tHideFonts \ 
            or the mouseV < item 2 of tHideFonts or the mouseV > item 4 of tHideFonts then hide fld "fonts"
      exit mouseUp to top
   end if

keram

[Klaus]

Hi Keram,

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exit mouseUp to top

Either:
exit mouseup
or
exit to top



Best

Klaus

[keram]

Thanks,
I was overzealous to really exit

[Klaus]

Thanks,
I was overzealous to really exit