David Epstein wrote:
MC 2.2 on Mac OSX 10.4.
While observing the message watcher, I click on the titleBar of a (not
frontmost) stack that contains an unlocked field. The message watcher
shows these two messages:
resumeStack
openField
and the unlocked field gets a blinking insertion point.
How can I suppress this behavior? I only want an insertion point if
the user clicks on the unlocked field itself, not if he simply brings
the stack to the front.
When a card opens, the engine focuses on the first object on the card
that has traversalOn set to true. On Windows machines, where buttons can
have traversal, a button at a lower layer than the first unlocked field
will receive the focus and the behavior you describe won't happen. On a
Mac, buttons don't get traversal, so the first unlocked field gets the
focus instead.
You can work around this a few different ways. One is put an unlocked
field at layer 1 somewhere off screen. This isn't a very good solution
for some stacks, but it does allow the engine to focus on that field
without anything visible happening for the user to notice. It will mess
up the tabbing order though, since the user will think nothing happened
if they tab into that field, since they can't see it.
Another way is to script this:
on preOpenCard
send "unsel" to me in 10
end preOpenCard
on unsel
select empty
end unsel
This is a hack too, but I've used it for a long time. Another solution
I've read is this:
on preOpenCard
set the traversalOn of fld 1 to false
end preOpenCard
on openCard
set the traversalOn of fld 1 to true
end openCard
The problem with this is that if you have another editable field, the
focus can shift there instead. You would probably have to loop through
all the fields, setting traversalOn to false on preOpenCard, and then
loop again on openCard to set them all back.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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