Thanks a bunch. "the keyBoardFocusSprite", why couldn't I guess that?? re. Al's comments, I alluded to problems when I set the visible of my text sprites, or moved them off the stage. Basically a text sprite in a higher channel (ie lower number) with visible and editable set to False prevents a visible, editable one in a lower channel from automatically becoming active. The behaviour was quite unintuitive, and had me tearing my hair out. I came up with a workaround (hiding my 'invisible' sprites behind interface elements - yuk), but I'll certainly recreate the situation, and test "the keyBoardFocusSprite". James >Oh but there is! It goes by the name of "the keyBoardFocusSprite". Do look >it up in the Lingo Dictionary. > >Regards, >Pranav >- ----------------------------------------------------------- >"Simply stated, it is sagacious to eschew obfuscation." >- --Norman Augustine > > >Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:29:42 -0400 >From: "Al Hospers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: <lingo-l> delurk - text question > > > Setting the editable of _all_ other textmembers present to > > False is a brute > > force way of achieving the second, but even then, seems not > > always to work. > > I naively assumed there would be a text member property for > > this - something > > like textMember.focus - but it seems not... > >hmmm... > >actually I use the member(myMember).editable and sprite(mySprite).editable >a >lot & don't see a lot of problems with it. you could create a list of >editable sprites on the fly when you enter a frame & then broadcast a >message to only those sprites desired to make them editable or not as >needed. I have a field tab behavior that uses this technique. there are >probably several in the Direct-L archives that do this. of course you could >also use the keyboardFocusSprite too. I've just settled for what I know ><grin> > >HTH > >Al Hospers >CamberSoft, Inc. >al<at>cambersoft<dot>com >http://www.cambersoft.com _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
