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From: kofoid@bioscience.utah.edu (Eric Kofoid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: problem with returnInField
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.184117.14525@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
Date: 3 Dec 90 18:41:17 GMT
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In article <2419@pbhyg.PacBell.COM> mwan@PacBell.COM (Miu Wang) writes:
> [...]
> I have a script:
> 
>         on returnInField
>                 do something
>                 pass returnInField
>         end returnInfield
> 
> What I want to do is to "do something" when the user types a "return" in 
a
> text field, then have the system do its normal thing (put a return 
character
> in the text field and move the insertion point to the beginning of the 
next
> line in the field and allow the user to continue typing.  But HC does not
> return control to the text field after the "do something". Bummer...
>[...]

Try this:

on returnInField
  put selectedChunk into thePos

  -- Following line is a dummy example of something
  -- which can be done at this point:
  put the ticks

  put return after thePos
  pass returnInField
end returnInField

Cheers,

Eric Kofoid

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