What about exitfield? Mike
Original Message From: la...@significantplanet.org Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2014 10:45 PM To: How to use LiveCode Reply To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: how to detect insertion point Thanks Kay, For some reason, neither focusIn nor focusOut works. I can get what I want with openField but I haven't found anything that works when the focus is no longer on the field; focusOut doesn't work and neither does closeField (because closeField only works if the user changed the contents of the field) So I'm just here tearing my hair out! Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com> To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 8:35 PM Subject: Re: how to detect insertion point > Maybe the focusIn messgae might help. > > On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:30 AM, <la...@significantplanet.org> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have several fields... myField1, myField2, etc. >> >> When the user clicks within a field, I want to detect the (?? selection, >> insertion ??) and run a script. >> >> I've experimented for over an hour with no luck. >> >> The only thing I found that sort of works is: >> on mouseEnter >> do stuff >> end mouseEnter >> >> The problem with that is that one of the things I want to do is change >> the color of the field while the script is doing stuff and only change >> back to the original color when the stuff is finished, and not when the >> mouse leaves. It is too clunky to require the user to leave the mouse in >> the field while the stuff is being done. >> >> I hope that makes sense. >> Thanks for any help. >> Larry >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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