Ha! The 'cut' command kills the selectedField. If I look at the
selectedField before the cut, it does give the field ID. Similarly, I
suspect that if I do a paste, there won't be anything in the
selectedField until AFTER the paste is done (there certainly isn't
beforehand). None of this is clear in the RR docs. I would have
assumed the selectedField would always be non-empty if a field had the
focus and one could see the cursor flashing in it, but this is too
simple a view.
So maybe, just maybe, I've cracked it.
I'll report back.
Graham
I just wrote:
Bonjour Eric
Thanks for the quick reply. Sadly the selectedField returns empty in
the circumstances. I do find this very mysterious. For example, if I
put some text in a field and invoke my 'cut' menu, which executes
this script fragment from the menuPick handler dealing with "Cut":
cut
if clipboardData["text"] is not empty then
put the selectedfield
....
The clipboard data can be shown to be as expected (i.e. what was in
the field), but the selectedField is just empty.
There must be some way for the handler in the menu to detect what
the cut (or paste or clear) operation was operating on, but I can't
find it.
Best wishes from la France profonde
Graham
On 1Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:39:58 +0200, Eric Chatonet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
Bonjour Graham,
May be the selectedField could be your friend?
if the selectedField <> empty then put the long name of the
selectedField into tSourceField
Le 19 sept. 08 à 15:34, Graham Samuel a écrit :
I'm trying to implement a simple Undo for a text entry screen
consisting of a grid of fields acting as cells (not a single table,
but individual fields). To do this, when the user selects say "Cut"
from the available menu, I want to record not only the currently
selected text - no problem - but also the ID (or better, the name)
of the field/cell where the text was before it was cut. However
when I execute a script line like
put the short name of the focusedObject into lastFieldCut
the name is that of the underlying card. This doesn't seem to be
what the documentation says is supposed to happen. The
documentation suggests that the underlying card is returned when
nobody has the focus, yet I have seen the cursor blinking just as I
pull down the menu.
I think that by invoking a menu I somehow have altered the focus,
albeit temporarily.
Can anyone explain how I can find out which field was in play when
the menu was invoked?
TIA
Graham
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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