Auto Focus On Edit Field - How To Cancel It

[Googie85]

Hi Guys!!!

I am trying to launch my app without automatically focusing on an edit field. I have the following code,

on openStack
focus on nothing
end openStack

That does not seem to work. Any ideas would be awesome!

Many Thanks,

Googie.

[jmburnod]

Hi,
You may try "focus on nothing" on opencard.
Best regards
Jean-Marc

[jacque]

I wish there was a switch to turn off this automatic behavior. More than half the time I don't want any field selected when a card opens. There is nothing you can do in any of the pre* or open* messages to stop it, but you can manage it with a workaround.

The traversalOn property controls whether an automatic selection occurs, so turn it off in a preopencard handler and then send a message to turn it back on, if necessary, after the card has completely finished loading.

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on preOpenCard 
  set the traversalOn of fld 1 to false
  send "traversalOff" to me in 10 milliseconds 
end preOpenCard 

on traversalOff
  set the traversalOn of fld 1 to true
end traversalOff