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From: moore@cs.washington.edu (Charles Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: selecting contents of a locked field
Message-ID: <9490@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 14 Oct 89 09:45:11 GMT
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I've got a couple of problems that I wonder if somebody has solutions
to.  I would like to have an index card in a stack that lists all the
other cards in the stack by the contents of some identifying field.  I
would like to be able to go to any listed card directly from the index
and I would like to request the deletion of any listed card without
leaving the index.  It seems to me that the natural way to do this
(for the user) would be to have a single click on a card name result
in the selection of that name whereupon the user might hit the Delete
key or click a "Delete Card" button.  To go to a listed card the user
would double-click on the name.

     This brings up my two problems.  First, the only way to select
the contents of a field seems to be by tabbing into it either with the
Tab key or with the tabKey command.  Unfortunately, this only works if
the field is unlocked.  But if I unlock it in order to select it, I
can't catch the second click of a double-click.  So, does anybody know
of a non-XCMD way of selecting the contents of a field but leaving it
locked or, alternatively, of the availability of an XCMD that will do
this?

     Secondly, is there a way to catch the Delete key?

     Any suggestions will be appreciated.

					Charles Moore