Setting Input Focus for a Field

[HeathkitGreg webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Hello,

I've been programming in Lingo for over 5 years and have noticed over the years that people often want to know how to programmatically control which field in a screen the users typed input will go into. I have never heard a good answer, but never really needed that control until now. Most other GUI languages have functions that allow the program to control which field, in a multi-field screen, has the "input focus". I recently upgraded to Director 8.5, and am wondering if Macromedia has resolved this deficiency, and provided a means to control the input focus?

If there is still no way to control the input focus, could someone please tell just what rules Director uses to determine which field has the input focus when entering a frame. From what I have seen there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for which field has the focus (like order in the score, or last field written to by Lingo)

Thanks in advance!
Greg Tobin

[MGaston]

Greg,

Like you, I've never needed to have that ability for any of the things I've
written, so I'm speaking out of ignorance here (not that uncommon for me),
but I would guess that you could use keyboardFocusSprite.

HTH,
Matt

HeathkitGreg <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I've been programming in Lingo for over 5 years and have noticed over the

years that people often want to know how to programmatically control which
field in a screen the users typed input will go into. I have never heard a
good answer, but never really needed that control until now. Most other GUI
languages have functions that allow the program to control which field, in a
multi-field screen, has the "input focus". I recently upgraded to Director
8.5, and am wondering if Macromedia has resolved this deficiency, and
provided a means to control the input focus?

>
> If there is still no way to control the input focus, could someone please

tell just what rules Director uses to determine which field has the input
focus when entering a frame. From what I have seen there doesn't seem to be
any rhyme or reason for which field has the focus (like order in the score,
or last field written to by Lingo)

>
> Thanks in advance!
> Greg Tobin
>
>
>