To focus on field without have the text selected

[Mag]

Hi all!

I'm trying to use the focus on field command in a series of fields with lockText true, unfortunately when the field get the focus the entire text of the field is selected, is there a way to avoid the text selection when move from a field to another?

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Not sure how you are doing this, but if you focus on a field that contains text, the default behavior is to set the cursor at the end of that text, not to select all. Anyway, try this in a button somewhere:

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on mouseUp
   focus on fld 1
   select empty
end mouseUp

Craig

EDIT: Hmmm, this seemed reasonable, but of course selecting empty defocuses the field. Try something else...

More Hmmm. Setting the cursor to none and locking does not work. And why should it? There are always two cursors when a blinking one is in the field and the "ordinary" one is hanging around the card.

[Mag]

Maybe select text something? But what?

[dunbarx]

OK.

This has to win the silver for ugliest kluge of the Olympics. It works, and if you never do anything to the text of that field it can stay. Otherwise, ugh.

In a button script, with a field with text in it:

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on mouseUp
   get the scroll of fld 1
   focus on fld 1
   repeat 100
      put  return after fld 1
   end repeat
      select after text of fld 1
      set the scroll of fld 1 to it
end mouseUp

Oh. Did I mention it was awful?

Craig

[LCNeil]

Hi Mag,

Just tried this and it seems to work (Mac OSX)

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on mouseUp
   focus on fld 1
   select char 0 of fld 1
end mouseUp

Kind Regards,


Neil Roger
--
RunRev Support Team ~ http://www.runrev.com
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[dunbarx]

Neil.

Right. Thank heaven.

Craig

[jacque]

A bit of trivia: fields with autoTab set to true will auto-select the entire field content. Fields with autoTab set to false will set the insertion point at the end. Or at least it used to be that way, I haven't checked in a while.

[dunbarx]

Jacque.

That is right. Forgot about autoTab

Mag, listen to Jacque.

Craig

[Mag]

Hi Mag,

Just tried this and it seems to work (Mac OSX)

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on mouseUp
   focus on fld 1
   select char 0 of fld 1
end mouseUp

Kind Regards,


Neil Roger
--
RunRev Support Team ~ http://www.runrev.com
-

Thank you Neil works fine and it suits perfectly the needs of my current project.

So now I replaced

focus on field "abc"

with

select char 0 of fld "abc"


Thank you Jacque and Craig for your help!

[dunbarx]

Mag,

So your instinct about "select something..." was spot on.

Craig

[Mag]

Mag,

So your instinct about "select something..." was spot on.

Craig

Hehehe