Oh!! T H A N K Y O U ! ! ! I was so careless!
I was blocking the key input by saying:
handled = ture;
too soon.
Thanks
horace
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Antos [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 1999 Aug 25 Wed 08:56
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Is a field editable?
have you checked your event loop to make sure it's letting the Field get the
keyDownEvents?
----- Original Message -----
From: Horace Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 5:47 PM
Subject: RE: Is a field editable?
> This is how I set up text in a field:
>
> static void uiSetText(FormPtr frm, Word fID, CharPtr fData, ULong fSize)
> {
> Word fldIndex = FrmGetObjectIndex(frm, fID);
> FieldPtr fld = (FieldPtr) FrmGetObjectPtr(frm, fldIndex);
> VoidHand fieldHandle = MemHandleNew(fSize);
> VoidPtr fieldData = MemHandleLock(fieldHandle);
> StrCopy((CharPtr) fieldData, fData);
> MemHandleUnlock(fieldHandle);
> FldSetTextHandle(fld, (Handle) fieldHandle);
> }
>
> and the calling funtion is:
>
> uiSetText(frm, MainDesc1Field, "Empty", UD_MAX_ALARM_DESC+1);
>
>
> In fact, I have the uiSetText() working for a while (in other
applicatins).
> It even works well on another form of the same application! May there be
> a chance other attribute(s) of a form will affect whether a field is
> editable?
>
> Thanks
> horace
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Fedor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 1999 Aug 25 Wed 04:29
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Is a field editable?
>
>
> Have you set a maximum length for the contents of the field? That'd also
> stop input, if the existing text has already filled up what you said was
> the maximum.
>
> (And did you give the field a handle to edit, or just a pointer? If you
> just gave it a pointer, it can't resize it, so that'd also have the same
> effect.)
>
> -David Fedor
> Palm Developer Support
>
>
>
>
>
