Hi David.
Not sure about your issue losing the selection when tabbing between controls.
However many have instituted a method of setting the imageSource of the first
character of a line of a field to mark a hilited line. Since things like check
marks and bullets are not consistent in fonts between platforms, this is the
workaround. I usually prepend a space and a tab on each line, then set the
tabstops of the field to accomodate the graphic, so that the actual text in
each line remain letf-aligned. It works pretty good.
Otherwise, why not use a datagrid? Then you can just get the dgHilitedLine of
the datagrid, then the dgDataOfLine [it] for your value.
Bob S
> On May 30, 2018, at 18:29 , David Epstein via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> This seems like a problem that I’ve solved before, but I can’t recall how.
> With a line hilited in a locked list-behavior-true field, I can use the mouse
> to select text in any of a number of unlocked fields without disturbing my
> list’s hilite. But if I use the tabKey to move the insertion point or
> selection from one unlocked field to the next, the list hilite is lost. How
> can I preserve it?
>
> Many thanks.
> David Epstein
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