Getting last Cursor position in Field when focus moves

[Lagi Pittas]

Hi

I am rolling my own keyboard and have the keys when pressed by finger/mouse going to a specified field.
Everythingh works nicely but the backspace key try as I might deletes from the last character.

Using this in the mouseup of the field

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on MouseUp
    local lnPos
    put word 2 of the selectedchunk into lnPos
    set the the uChunk of me to lnPos
end Mouseup

And deleteng from that character.

The problerm is to get the Mousup to work I have to lock the field.

I can get it to sort of work by unlocking the field but i really want it locked to make it foolproof - "just in case".

Nothing is foolproof - fools are so ingenious

This will be used on a tablet so I want control of what and when they can enter.

Is there an easy way of the user touching say the letter "C" in the string/line ABCDE in the field and show the/a cursor between B and C where any new inserts or deletions happen or shall I take the easy route and create a text field that they can edit and then append that to the "real field"

I hope I'm making sense here

Regards Lagi

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Off the top of my head, in a locked field with traversalOn set:

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on mouseUp
   if the target contains "field" then
   select before char (word 2 of the selectedChunk) of target
   end if
end mouseUp

Does this get you going?

Craig

[Lagi Pittas]

HI Craig

Thanks for that. In the end I decided to leave the field unlocked and used the mousemove to do what I wanted.

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on MouseMove
   local lnPos
   put word 2 of the selectedchunk into lnPos
   set the uPos of me to lnPos
   put lnPos
end MouseMove

on KeyDown
   local lnPos
   put word 2 of the selectedchunk into lnPos
   set the uPos of me to lnPos
   put lnPos
   pass KeyDown
end KeyDown

Seems to work although it is out by one which I have to allow for. The keydown routine isn't really needed but is useful when working on the PC.

Thanks again


Lagi