Maybe related to skinning - Solved

[DR White]

What do I need to do to be able to activate the code within a field that has a graphic covering the field?

Attached a very simple stack to better describe the challenge.

Thanks,

David

[jmburnod]

Hi David,
I disabled graphic which cover field and it works
Best regards
Jean-Marc

[DR White]

Jean-Marc,

Sorry to bother you on something so simple,
but I had beat my for a couple hours and was not making any headway.

Thank goodness for this forum!

Disabling the graphic took care of it.

Thanks so much,

David

[jmburnod]

Hi David

Sorry to bother you on something so simple,

I hope it is not too simple
You also may use loop to know which field is under the mouseloc.
Something like that:
graphic script

Code: Select all

on mouseup
   get getMyControlML()
   send "mouseup" to fld it
end mouseup

card script

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on mouseup
   put the short name of the target into tNameTarget
   if "fMyField" is in the short name of the target then
      get  getMyFldML()
      put fld it into  fld "Display"
   end if
end mouseup

function getMyFldML
   repeat with i = 1 to 3
      put "fMyField" & i into tFld
      if the mouseloc is within the rect of fld tFld then
         return tFld
         exît repeat
      end if
   end repeat
end getMyFldML

Jean-Marc

[jacque]

Jean-Marc's script works but now we have controlAtLoc() which is easier:

put controlAtLoc(the mouseloc)

[jmburnod]

Hi Jacqueline,
Two times i forget controlAtLoc.
In this case it doesn't work because there is a grc on top
Lucky day for me with 825 as result on Klondike

[jacque]

Yes, you're right. I forgot about the stacked controls, so we both have memory problems.

It's nice to hear my old Klondike stack is still in use and is working after all the engine revisions. I wrote it in MetaCard! The LC team has done a great job with backward compatibility.