Struggling Handling Focus of 1 field

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[mrcoollion]

Do not know if this is handy for some but I needed to save the field data as soon as the field was left by the user.
When a user left the field by clicking on another button the routine was not triggered so I combined the following and that works great for me.

In the main stack I placed a command called UpdateVarField with variable theFieldName. This command does everything I would like to do after a user leaves that field, of course you can do that different or even place a routine (command or function) local. The idea is to use 'on exitField' and 'on closeField' both, that makes it work.
Maybe someone can use this...

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on exitField
   put the name of me into tVar
   replace quote with "@" in tVar
   set itemdelimiter to "@"
   put item 2 of tVar into theFieldName
   UpdateVarField theFieldName
end ExitField

on closeField
   put the name of me into tVar
   replace quote with "@" in tVar
   set itemdelimiter to "@"
   put item 2 of tVar into theFieldName
   UpdateVarField theFieldName
end closeField