Thanks Craig. Somehow the return characters didn’t arrive in my email, but of course I understand what you mean. But this would simply empty the field, wouldn’t it, whereas I want the user to see the text that was there before, selected. I thought that was what the ’select’ command for text was for.
Graham > On 8 Oct 2020, at 15:30, craig--- via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Not sure about mobile, but does this help? > > on openFieldset the keyboardType of me to "numeric" > put "" into meselect text of meend openField > > Craig > > > -----Original Message----- > From: "Graham Samuel via use-livecode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 8:45am > To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Cc: "Graham Samuel" <livf...@mac.com> > Subject: Select text question > > > > I want a user to key a number in a field in an iOS app. Normally the field > will already contain data which the user will be replacing, so I coded this > > on openField > set the keyboardType of me to "numeric" > select text of me > end openField > > What happens is that the selection can be seen taking place briefly (this is > in the Simulator) and then reverts to a flashing cursor with the original > data still in the field and no selection shown. (The numeric keyboard does > open BTW, but I can’t see that as relevant). > > What did I do wrong? > > Graham > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
