Try this.. local sHilitedelay
on openField -- sHilitedelay is used to avoid a weird side effect when regaining stack focus -- by clicking on a field in the card. If a field other than the previously selected -- is clicked, it can start a runaway loop. The delay solves this problem. -- when experimenting you might put in a "if the shiftkey is down then exit to top" -- so you can break out of the loop if necessary, though the delay does appear to solve it fine. if sHilitedelay is empty then put the millisec into sHilitedelay -- use send in time so that all the housekeeping is completed before you try to hilite if the millisec - sHilitedelay > 1 then send "hiliteText" to the target in 0 millisec end openField on hiliteText select the text of the target put the millisec into sHilitedelay end hiliteText On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:43 AM, Peter Reid <pr...@reidit.co.uk> wrote: > I know I'm missing the obvious but I just can't figure out how to get the > following behaviour with text fields... > > 1. When the user presses the tab key on the keyboard, the next field is > selected and the current content of the next field is selected (so any > typing replaces all the content). > > 2. If the user uses the mouse to click into a different text field, the > current content of the next field is selected and behaves just like 1. > > What's happening is that I can get 1. to work but every time the user > mouse-clicks into a different field, that target field gets selected but > its content is deselected and the I-bar insertion point is placed where the > mouse click occurred. > > So far I've got the following in the card script to provide the same > behaviour for all the fields on it: > > on openField > hiliteText > end openField > > on hiliteText > put the id of the target into tID > if there is a field id tID then > select the text of the target > end if > end hiliteText > > Any suggestions please? > > Peter > -- > Peter Reid > Loughborough, UK > > > _______________________________________________ > 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