Text Entry field Cursor

[RossG]

I have a text entry field for the user to add/modify data.
It works but is inconvenient as the cursor can't be
positioned with the mouse. Tried "set cursor to arrow"
without success.

London to a brick there's an solution and someone
here knows what it is. (LC 7.1.2, Win XP)

[bogs]

Heya Ross.

There must be more to the story, I set up a plain text field, pasted your question into it, and then clicked in / out of the field. Whenever I clicked in the field, the cursor was placed at the mouse location, so that does seem to be the default behavior.

[dunbarx]

as the cursor can't be
positioned with the mouse.

I am puzzled as well. LC is "ordinary" in the way it treats editable fields. Others have asked how to set the cursor in a body of text WITHOUT using the mouse. Is it possible this is what you meant?

Craig NEwman

[jacque]

Check the field properties. Locktext should be false, autohilite true, and traversalon true.

[dunbarx]

Ah.

Jacque may have identified the issue.

is it that you want the user to be able to click on a word or line, and then have LC extract the pertinent data for further processing?

Something like:

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on mouseUp
answer the clickText
...etc.

Craig

[richmond62]

how to set the cursor in a body of text WITHOUT using the mouse

I don't see why this should be a problem . . .
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on rawKeyDown RK
   if RK = 65470 then
      select after fld "ff"
   else
      pass rawKeyDown
      end if
end rawKeyDown

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[richmond62]

In fact, come to think of things, Jef Raskin tried to design a mouseless,
windowless, app-less operating system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef_Raskin

[jacque]

You guys may be overthinking this. It sounds like he just wants a normal editable text field.

Another reason for the failure could be a transparent button or field on top of the editable one.

[richmond62]

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on rawKeyDown RK
   switch RK
   case 65470
      select after fld "ff"
      break
   case 65471
      select after trueWord 1 of fld "ff"
      break
   case 65472
      --
   case 65474
      select the last trueWord of fld "ff"
      copy
      select after fld "gg"
      paste
      break
      default
      pass rawKeyDown
      end switch
end rawKeyDown

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[richmond62]

[richmond62]

[richmond62]

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[richmond62]

Oddly enough that's probably where I have to control myself as, when I press the "F9" key on my
MacOS 10.7.5 system it "doesn't play ball."
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Good fun while it lasted.

[richmond62]

I can't help thinking that our current dependence on mice,
trackpads and trackballs cramps our thinking in some ways.
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[FourthWorld]

Ross, can you create a new stack, drag a field to it, and then after switching to the Browse tool edit the field contents?

If not, save that stack and post it here.