Selection is a text member property, not a field's.
perhaps set the selstart and selend to the last char + 1 (just a guess)...
or maybe put a return after the last char, and then do the above (again, a
guess)
> i thought selStart and selEnd were replaced by the selection in d8.x....
> maybe try it with that.
>
> - --bh
>
> John Hart wrote:
>>
>> Let me try again:
>> My objective is to have a blinking cursor appear on the last line of a field
>> sprite that may or may not contain any text. Usually, sprite(x).editable
>> works for me. But I can't get that to produce a blinking cursor in this
>> particular "notes" field because it has text in it already. Using the selEnd
>> in combo with selStart doesn't work for me 'cuz I'm just not getting it.
>> What happens is selEnd = the last char of field "mynotes" produces a hilite
>> of the last char. Don't want that. Want blinking cursor. My kingdom for
>> blinking cursor. Index in Dir. 8.5 manual under "blinking cursor"
>> says..."ask Al or Tab, or other pro on lingo list."
>>
>> Back to you...
-K
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