closefield/exitfield

2009-09-09 Thread Klaus Major
Hi freinds, I have a question thats on my mind for a long time: should a closefield/exitfield of a field be executed if one clicks a button that has its traversalon property set to true (on the same card of course)? I think yes, but it doesn't, Rev 3.4, OS X 10.5xxx. According to the docs

Re: closefield/exitfield

2009-09-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Klaus, Your proposal would break projects that rely on the ability to copy selected text from a field by clicking on a button or selecting an item from a menu. You really don't want that. There are sufficient ways to implement an autosave feature. Think of closefield, exitfield

Re: closefield/exitfield

2009-09-09 Thread Klaus Major
to TRUE. If one does not want to lose a selection this MUST be FALSE. So unfortunately you did not really answer my first question: Should a closefield/exitfield handler of a field be executed if one clicks a button that has its traversalon property set to TRUE (on the same card of course

Re: closefield/exitfield

2009-09-09 Thread Jim Sims
On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Should a closefield/exitfield handler of a field be executed if one clicks a button that has its traversalon property set to TRUE (on the same card of course)? closeField message is generally not sent when another control

Re: closefield/exitfield

2009-09-09 Thread Klaus Major
Hi sims, On Sep 9, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Should a closefield/exitfield handler of a field be executed if one clicks a button that has its traversalon property set to TRUE (on the same card of course)? closeField message is generally not sent when another control

Re: closefield/exitfield

2009-09-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
for Revolution http://www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) --- On Wed, 9/9/09, Klaus Major kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: From: Klaus Major kl...@major.on-rev.com Subject: closefield/exitfield To: How to use

Re: closefield/exitfield

2009-09-09 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jan, Hi Klaus, The 'traversalOn' property has no effect for buttons on MacOSX. The safest way is to 'select empty' just before doing your auto-saving stuff; for the best user experience, save 'the selectedChunk' and select it again afterwards. thank you, I already came to this