Re: text selection question

2005-06-12 Thread Jon
Are all of these [reasonable] timing issues documented somewhere? I just had a similar problem ... er ... situation regarding On Startup vs On OpenStack :) Jon Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 1:16 PM -0400 6/11/2005, Bill Humphrey wrote: If the command select or focus on is run from and

Re: text selection question

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Humphrey
Thank you. This wait for 1 tick solves the problem completely. Well, openField changes the focus sort of by definition. If you want a word auto-selected, you'll need to delay the selection until after openField is finished. Try this: on openField if target is not empty then send

Re: text selection question

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Brenstein
If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? Bill Humphrey wrote: Just what you found out: you are

Re: text selection question

2005-06-11 Thread Bill Humphrey
Robert Brenstein wrote: If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? Bill Humphrey wrote: Just what you

Re: text selection question

2005-06-11 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 1:16 PM -0400 6/11/2005, Bill Humphrey wrote: If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? I would not

text selection question

2005-06-09 Thread Bill Humphrey
How come when you do this: select word one of fld x_areacode1 The text just flashes for a second and doesn't remain selected? Is there some command: select word one of fld foolish coder and hold that selection *[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: text selection question

2005-06-09 Thread Bill Humphrey
If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? Bill Humphrey wrote: How come when you do this: select word