Here's my problem. A button handler in a palette stack reads:

on mouseup
  answer "Click on the application field." with OK
  if it is empty then exit mouseUP
  wait until the mouseclick
  answer the clickstack --But I want the field name, not the stack name
end mouseup

What the user is suppose to do is click on the field in the application stack and the name of the field is revealed. The above handler produces the stack name, not the field name.

Naturally I tried "the clickField" but that comes up empty. (clickField is set to empty after a mouseclick.) And "the target" gives the name of the button which originally received the message in the palette stack, not the field in the application stack.

How do I get the name of the clicked field in the application stack revealed to the palette stack?

Jim


Well, I found a way, but it is a kludge:

on mouseup
  answer "Click on the field to use." with OK
  wait until the mouseclick
  put the clickloc into tLoc
  put the clickstack into tStackName
  repeat with i = 1 to the number of controls in tStackName
    if tloc is within the rect of control i of  tStackName then
      put the  name of control i of tStackName into theClickControl
      exit repeat
    end if
  end repeat
  put theClickControl into field theFieldName
end mouseup


(Assuming the controls don't overlap.)


There must be a cleaner way.

Jim
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