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From: gf07+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gordon Maskew Fair, III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: field cursor and which field it is in
Message-ID: <QZ_qine00WBKQ179Z_@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 5 Oct 89 14:56:51 GMT
Organization: Electrical and Comp. Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Hello
 I have just started really playing with hypercard and I ran into a
bottleneck.

What I am trying to do is within a card I have several text fields. 
When one presses tab the cursor moves from field to field.  This is
great but what I want to know is whether or not there is a cmd or fnctn
that allows one to tell which field one is in when one tabs.  

I could actually count the tabs and know the order that the fields are
set in but I also want to allow the user to mouse click within a field
which would mess up my counting of tabs.  I can think of a "hack" for
doing this but is there any clean and neat way of doing this?

Thank you

Gordon