At 1:17 AM +0100 3/1/02, Michael von Aichberger wrote: > > look up 'the keyboardFocusSprite' > >Hi Buzz, > >it wasn't me who asked the question, but I have the same problem with the >editable text sprite (Dir 8.5 German, win2k). For me 'the >keyboardFocusSprite' has no or no reliable effect. > >Just now I have the problem that my movie starts with an editable text field
which is it? #text or #field ? >sprite, that enables the user to input his name. When the movie starts, >there is a text cursor on the field (even without using the >keyboardFocusSprite). But when the user jumps back to that frame, the cursor >is not there anymore. (Although he still can enter his data). With any minor >change that I make in my movie, the strange behaviour changes. Sometimes, >the cursor isn't there at the beginning, sometimes it is there, but input is >only possible if the user clicks on the text field, sometimes the field >can't be edited at all. > >In all cases where the text field reacts strangely the keyboardFocusSprite >was of no use. Once I inserted a stop script (go to the frame) to check at >what frame the error occurs or what script might cause the strange >behaviour. The pure fact of inserting the go to the frame script made the >text cursor behave normally. When I removed the stop script, the movie >continued to behave normally, although the code was not different from >before my debugging effort. > >As this is not the first time that I had problems with editable text >cursors, I do think that there is a bug in Director. > >If there was a solution to this, I'd be glad someone told me ... Do you have a simple movie (<400k) that shows the failure? if so, send it to me, I'd like to see it. > >Michael > > >-Buzz > >At 2:50 PM -0800 2/28/02, you wrote: >>Hi- >> >>I'm using a sprite with editable text. I want the sprite to be active with >>the cusor blinking. >>But at the moment, this only happens when the user clicks on the sprite. Is >>there a lingo command that will set the editable sprite to active with >>blinking cursor, so that the user can just start typing in the field >without >>having to click on it first? >> >>thanks >> >>Thomas >> >>[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go > >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the > >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with > >programming Lingo. Thanks!] > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to >http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is >for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!] > >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with >programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
