Editable Field Becomes Un-editable

[Jimmy the Lizard webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I have a problem that has driven me nuts, and I welcome any help I can receive.

I have a text field that I have set to EDITABLE in the properties window. Users are to enter data into this field, then press a button to view their entries in a table. The table is defined in separate frames. Once users view the table, they can then press a button to return to the original text field.

So the text field appears in frames 10 to 20, and the table appears in frames 21 - 30.

Unfortunately, when they return to the frame where the text field appears, the text field is no longer editable.

I tried to hardwire the text field to be editable using a beginSprite behavior attached to the text field. The beginSprite behavior does become activated (I used a PUT statement to verify this), but the text field does not become editable.

Any ideas what could cause this?

[JB]

Here's someone's replay from the Lingo section that might be relavent

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Hi,

In general, cast member properties can be accessed/modified this way, and
it's not a rare thing at all.
However, this particular property (editable of textMember) you are
trying to
change, is an exception - or a bug, to be more accurate, at least
according
to my experience.
From what I can recall, textMembers' editable property refused to
cooperate
after the first time it was changed by lingo at runtime, or something
similar. There might be a workaround, but since it was quite some time
now
that I faced the problem, can't remember how (and if) I solved it.

Btw, a more effective piece of code to modify the properties could be:

on mousedown
castLibNameOrNumber=1
highMemNr=the number of members of castLib (castLibNameOrNumber)
repeat with i=1 to highMemNr
targetMem=member(i, castLibNameOrNumber)
if targetMem.type=#text then targetMem.editable=true
end repeat
end mousedown

Important: Don't forget to check the type of the member before you try to
access a property. Not all members have the same properties (and there
might
also be empty members) and this can cause errors at your script's
execution.


"penguin_can_fly"...
Amazing what you learn on this list!..


"penguin_can_fly" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I was trying to change all the text members in my external file named

"texts" to editable ones

>
> I did this and it return "member name expected"
>
> property a
> on mousedown
> a=1
> repeat while a<48
> member(a, "texts").editable = true
> a=a+1
> end repeat
> end mousedown
>
> Can variable be used in member()? like the variable "a" above?
>
> Please help.
>
>
>