Figured it out from looking through the archives for something else - It was actually an issue with a group that was slightly overlapping the fields that weren't getting messages/focus.
Moved that group to the back, and everything is fine now! Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 11:10 PM Subject: RE: Introduction and a question > Edwin, > > That's very strange. Can you let us know what version of Rev you're > using and whether the listField's group is acting as a background (I'm > pretty sure it does) or the other fields have any of their sharedText > properties set to true? > > That would help track this down, > > Ken Ray > Sons of Thunder Software > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin Gore > Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2003 3:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Introduction and a question > > > Just wanted to do a quick introduction. > > New to using Revolution, but I was a old Hypercard/SuperCard/Toolbook > hand several years ago. > > Found out about Revolution through Richard Gaskin's FourthWorld site, > and was intrigued enough to download the free version, and then buy the > Student fo my daughter who is learning to program with it. > > Quick question... > > Am I correct in thinking that having a list field on a card messes up > open and close field messages for other fields on the card? We are > trying to do something where the navigation is a scrolling list in a > group on the left of the card and clicking takes you to a specific card. > Once there, you can edit one of several fields on that card, and there > is some validation doen through onpen and close field scripts. > > The problem is that once you have clicked on the listField the other > fields on the card no longer seem to get open and close field messages > when you click on them and the insertion point never appears in them. > YOu can still click in the field and type, but an openfield never gets > sent and the insertion point never appears. > > Weird. > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution