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Is there anyway to prevent the text field portion of a combobox button from automatically hiliting when its parent stack becomes active? >>> >>> FYI, the reason I asked this question in the first place is because I'd >>> like to use a combobox control to apply changes to the text in anot

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>>> Is there anyway to prevent the text field portion of a combobox button >>> from automatically hiliting when its parent stack becomes active? >> >> FYI, the reason I asked this question in the first place is because I'd >> like to use a combobox control to apply changes to the text in another

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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Scott Rossi wrote: > >>> > Is there anyway to prevent the text field portion of a combobox button > >>> > from automatically hiliting when its parent stack becomes active? > > FYI, the reason I asked this question in the first place is because I'd > like to use a combobox c

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On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > Scott Raney wrote: > > > I don't know what alternate reality you people are living in but it's > > *STANDARD BEHAVIOR* for the first item in a dialog to get the keyboard > > focus and show a selection when the dialog opens on *ALL PLATFORMS*.

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> What if I don't want to buy any of those items? Should I have to add a > "select none" button? No. Add a "Cancel" or "Back" button instead, just like all other UIs do. :D --WthmO

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Scott Raney wrote: > I don't know what alternate reality you people are living in but it's > *STANDARD BEHAVIOR* for the first item in a dialog to get the keyboard > focus and show a selection when the dialog opens on *ALL PLATFORMS*. My lists aren't dialogs. Suppose you were creating a shopping

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At 12:45 AM -0400 30/9/1999, Andu wrote: >>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. MetaC

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Howdy Mr. Rossi - >>I don't know what alternate reality you people are living in but it's >>*STANDARD BEHAVIOR* for the first item in a dialog to get the keyboard >>focus and show a selection when the dialog opens on *ALL PLATFORMS*. > >Personally, I'm all for "alternate" reality -- it pushes th

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Apple's HIG explains it likes this: "At a minimum, you should display an insertion point in the one of the edit text fields (usually the first field) when the dialog box is opened." The HIG does not men

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> Is there anyway to prevent the text field portion of a combobox button > from automatically hiliting when its parent stack becomes active? > >FYI, the reason I asked this question in the first place is because I'd >like to use a combobox control to apply changes to the text in another

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>>> > Is there anyway to prevent the text field portion of a combobox button >>> > from automatically hiliting when its parent stack becomes active? FYI, the reason I asked this question in the first place is because I'd like to use a combobox control to apply changes to the text in another fie

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>I don't know what alternate reality you people are living in but it's >*STANDARD BEHAVIOR* for the first item in a dialog to get the keyboard >focus and show a selection when the dialog opens on *ALL PLATFORMS*. Personally, I'm all for "alternate" reality -- it pushes the boundaries of "standar

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>On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > >> 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 ap

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>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 f

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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > 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 applica

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>MetaCard >automatically selects the first unlocked field it finds whenever the >card opens. Yes, this has been driving me nuts. Especially the flashing i-beam cursor displaying *through* any overlayed graphics or images. If the cursor won't enter a hidden field, perhaps an off-screen field w

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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 i

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On Wed, 29 Sep 1999, Scott Rossi wrote: > Is there anyway to prevent the text field portion of a combobox button > from automatically hiliting when its parent stack becomes active? You can either set traversalOn to false (which will disable all typing in the control) or set its layer such that

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Is there anyway to prevent the text field portion of a combobox button from automatically hiliting when its parent stack becomes active? Thanks, __ Scott RossiTactile Media - Multimedia & Design