Excellent--this fixed the problem.
Thanks, all, for your thoughtful and timely help.
brorgschlr85
On Friday, October 9, 2015 at 3:19:25 PM UTC-6, Jed Carty wrote:
>
> Move the edit-text widget outside the set widget. What is happening is
> every time you type a character into the edit text widget it refreshes the
> set widget and all its children, which currently includes the edit text
> widget and it resets the focus so you aren't in the text box anymore.
>
> Try this:
>
> *\define newtitlemacro() $(mytitle)$ $(rightnow)$*
> *\define newentry()*
>
> *<$button>**<$set name="rightnow" value=<<now YY-MM-DD>> >*
> *<$set name="mytitle" value={{$:/temp/newtitle}} >*
> *<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<newtitlemacro>>
> description=<<now "ddd, mmm DD, YYYY - 0hh:0mm $(currentTiddler)$">>
> tags="BM GL [[Hello World]]"/>*
> *</$set></$set>*
>
> *New Entry:*
> *</$button>*
> *<$edit-text tiddler="$:/temp/newtitle" tag="input" default=""/>*
> *\end *
>
> *<<newentry>>*
>
>
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