On Jul 6, 2011, at 12:52 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/6/11 2:06 AM, Slava Paperno wrote: >> But then I added other buttons to the same card, and found that if any of >> them has AutoHilite set to true, my focus command is undone, and the focus >> moves to the card itself as soon as the mouseUp handler is done in the Find >> button. I do want the user to see the visual feedback from those buttons, >> and I don't want their Focus with Keyboard property set to true. > > I think what you're seeing is the engine's long-standing behavior that > automatically focuses on the first object that has traversalOn set to true > whenever the card changes. On Windows/Linux, it can be a button. On OS X, > where buttons by default don't respond the same way, it's a field. This has > been known to drive developers gibbering into the streets, and I wish there > were a way to turn that off.
One way to "turn that off" is to group all the controls on the card, then set the traversalon of the *group* to false. You can still enter text in any individual field, but you don't get an unintended insertion point in the first (lowest layer) field when the card opens. I use this a lot, since I'm one of the people (can't really call myself a true developer) you might have seen gibbering in the street.... > But since we're stuck with it, one solution is to make your Find field the > first one (the lowest layer) if possible. Or, see my suggestion in my other > post. Or add an (ugly) command to an openCard handler that sends a message in > 1 millisecond to another handler, which in turn focuses on nothing (or on > your field if you prefer.) > >> >> With the focus gone, my user will probably try to press Tab to return the >> focus to the input field. But when the focus is on the card, none of my >> buttons receives that Tab keypress. > > Put the tabkey handler into the stack or card and check "the target" to see > which object received the message. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
