> Let me try again:
> My objective is to have a blinking cursor appear on the last
> line of a field
> sprite that may or may not contain any text. Usually,
> sprite(x).editable
> works for me. But I can't get that to produce a blinking
> cursor in this
> particular "notes" field because it has text in it already.
> Using the selEnd
> in combo with selStart doesn't work for me 'cuz I'm just not
> getting it.
> What happens is selEnd = the last char of field "mynotes"
> produces a hilite
> of the last char. Don't want that. Want blinking cursor. My
> kingdom for
> blinking cursor. Index in Dir. 8.5 manual under "blinking cursor"
> says..."ask Al or Tab, or other pro on lingo list."
OK "I'll" try again. as I said before...
you don't want a selection of any kind, you want the blinking
insertion cursor I beam at the end of the field no matter what it has
in it. set the selStart AND the selEnd to the number of the last
character in the field. it works for me.
Al Hospers
CamberSoft, Inc.
al<at>cambersoft<dot>com
http://www.cambersoft.com
A famous linguist once said:
"There is no language wherein a double
positive can form a negative."
YEAH, RIGHT
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