Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-08 Thread Ken Ray
Also I discovered a bit of a flaw in my code. If I click on a field that is a part of a group then I will likely throw an error, because you cannot set a fields layer to something higher than the layer of the highest layered object in the group. In other words, you have to change the layer

Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
can see right away that if I nested groups, I would be in a helluva state. I avoid nesting groups anyway if I can because it was such a *expletive deleted* working with groups when I first started. Didn't Hypercard have a tab order property? That would be a great addition I think. You could have

Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. Is there some kind of hidden property pertaining to the tab order of objects on a card? I know about the layer property, but I was hoping there was some kind of list, so I could set the tab order of fields by entering a repeat loop and clicking on objects, building a list of them,

Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Pete
The text property holds the tab names, one per line, in left to right order. One thing I've found useful when chasing down property names is to set the Preferences option to display property names instead of labels in the Inspector dialogs. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Bob Sneidar

Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Belay my last. Pretty simple: on clickOrder put the selectedobjects into theObjectList repeat for each line theObject in theObjectList set the layer of theObject to top end repeat end clickOrder Hi all. Is there some kind of hidden property pertaining to the tab order

Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry Pete I should have explained myself a bit better. I don't meat a tab panel. I mean the order in which fields get the focus when a user is tabbing through them. I found a really simple solution. See my prior post. Bob On Dec 6, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Pete wrote: The text property holds the

Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Mark Wieder
interspersed with them, or you might want to have other objects on top of them layerwise (ok - that's not a word, but you get the idea). I do think a tab-order property is a useful thing to add in addition to the layer hierarchy. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
of objects on the screen - you may want to have other non-tabbable objects interspersed with them, or you might want to have other objects on top of them layerwise (ok - that's not a word, but you get the idea). I do think a tab-order property is a useful thing to add in addition to the layer