No, there's no difference in behaviour between wd'q' and wd'qd'. Both return an out-of-date value for atel edit.
How do I post a (simulated) mouseClick event? That would fix it, I'm sure. Ian On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 11:43 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > Does wd'qd' help? > > Вск, 28 Ноя 2010, Ian Clark писал(а): >> 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 > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
