Is there a system verb I can call which simulates a button event? Or a call I can make from my code to post a keyDown or mouseclick event?
I've often met the need to do this, but most recently as one possible solution to the following problem: I have an edit control named atel, on a form named cab. After executing: wd 'set atel *xyz' the form shows 'xyz' in the appropriate field, but the buffer noun atel still shows its previous value. It does not get updated until I next interact with the screen. Even calling: wd'q' returns the old value of atel. (This is what happens on the Mac. I haven't tried it under Windows to see if the same thing happens.) How, at any given stage in my code, do I ensure that atel (and other edit buffers) are all in-step with their visible contents? Must my code explicitly assign the required contents to atel at the time it calls: wd 'set atel ...'? Ian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
