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From: egoldberg@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Eli Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Hypercard Help
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Date: 26 Jun 91 13:19:54 GMT
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Hi - I am developing a database access stack on Hypercard and am 
having a minor problem getting the right system message out of 
Hypercard: I am trying to "dummy guard" the fields that the user can 
enter data in.  My problem is getting the system message - I am 
looking for something just like exitField, but one that is send when a 
field IS changed - not when it is left alone.  closeField doesn't 
check for everything, and it takes a while until the right event 
occurred.  I was thinking of checking tabKey and returnInField, 
however, then both are sent (autotab has to be selected for this to 
work) and I get a user bombarded with the same request 2 times or so!  
Any advice - I looked through the 2.1 on-disk documentation and the 
1.2.5 written and couldn't find anything like this.  But being how 
well made Hypercard was done, I found it hard to believe that there is 
no way to do this!  Thank you! 
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