Thanks Kay,
For some reason, neither focusIn nor focusOut works.
I can get what I want with openField but I haven't found anything that works when the focus is no longer on the field; focusOut doesn't work and neither does closeField (because closeField only works if the user changed the contents of the field)
So I'm just here tearing my hair out!
Larry

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2014 8:35 PM
Subject: Re: how to detect insertion point


Maybe the focusIn messgae might help.

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:30 AM,  <la...@significantplanet.org> wrote:
Hello,

I have several fields... myField1, myField2, etc.

When the user clicks within a field, I want to detect the (?? selection, insertion ??) and run a script.

I've experimented for over an hour with no luck.

The only thing I found that sort of works is:
on mouseEnter
  do stuff
end mouseEnter

The problem with that is that one of the things I want to do is change the color of the field while the script is doing stuff and only change back to the original color when the stuff is finished, and not when the mouse leaves. It is too clunky to require the user to leave the mouse in the field while the stuff is being done.

I hope that makes sense.
Thanks for any help.
Larry
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