Hiliting the text of a text entry field

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Hiliting the text of a text entry field

Post by novarcproducts » Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:16 am

Hi all,

I seem to remember that in hypercard you could tab between text entry fields that had the "autohilite" property set (check box checked) and then when the user would tab through the fields the entire string of text in the field would be hilited. I have not figured out how to achieve that in RR. My fields are "text entry, autohilite, don't wrap" . When I tab between the fields I just get the I beam cursor in the fields rather than a selection of the text in the field. Am I missing something really simple? (wouldn't be the first time)

Any help is most appreciated.
Ron

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Post by Janschenkel » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:19 am

Try the 'autoTab' property (cleverly disguised as 'Tab on return' in the Inspector palette if your preference is to display 'Description of option' as property labels, which you can change in the General panel of the Preferences)

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Jan Schenkel.
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Post by novarcproducts » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:34 am

Thanks Jan.

I knew it had to be something simple.

Happy Holidays to you and yours,
Ron

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