[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Placing the cursor in a field

LZWEIER@csulb.edu (Lou Zweier) (04/18/91)

When a new card gets added to my stack, I want the cursor to be 
automaticlly placed in the text entry field so that text may be entered by 
just typing from the keyboard.

I have written an "On newcard" handler which assigns a title to the card, 
and then uses the select command to place the cursor in the field, but in 
practice, the cursor only appears for a short second and then is gone.  It 
appears that when the handler ends, the text field gets closed.  Anyone 
know of a way to get this to work properly?

Lou Zweier
Academic Computing Services
Cal. State, Long Beach
LZWEIER@csulb.edu

Lou Zweier
Academic Computing Services
Cal. State, Long Beach
LZWEIER@csulb.edu

fleming@cup.portal.com (Stephen R Fleming) (04/30/91)

I simply execute "type tab" the appropriate number of times until the
cursor winds up where I want it.

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