Scott Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is there anyway to prevent the text field portion of a combobox button
> from automatically hiliting when its parent stack becomes active?
I have had to override this behavior on two applications. MetaCard
automatically selects the first unlocked field it finds whenever the
card opens. It is almost never the behavior I want (not very Mac-like,)
and I wish it were optional. Scott, can we get a property setting for
this so we can turn it off?
The only solution I've found is to create a transparent dummy field that
is one pixel wide and give it a lower layer number than any other
editable object. If possible, hide it under an opaque button or field,
but keep its locktext set to false. When the card opens, the dummy field
will be the default selected object and your other fields and buttons
will remain untouched. If I don't have a suitable object to cover the
dummy field (sometimes the blinking cursor shows through the cover field
anyway,) I line up the single-pixel wide field with the edge of a button
or graphic, so it doesn't show. You can't just hide the dummy field, you
have to keep it visible since the default selection won't go to a hidden field.
Both my apps start up with a list field for which I want no default
selection. Actually, in one app, one of the options for the user is to
proceed without selecting anything. Seeing an item in a list selected
for no reason is confusing. Is this a Unix convention? Windows? Could
the Mac version just not do it? It isn't very hard to have a script
select a line in a field if that's what you want.
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