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From: briand@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: closeField
Keywords: closeField, messages
Message-ID: <2414@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Date: 27 Jan 88 16:21:52 GMT
References: <2694@pbhyf.UUCP>
Reply-To: briand@tekig4.UUCP (Brian Diehm)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
Lines: 17

>My problem is that if the user changes the field, and doesn't type tab,
>and then clicks on a button (that brings up another card), no closeField
>gets sent to the modified field and the other card doesn't get updated.
>
>Goodmans book (pg. 388, 3rd paragraph, 2nd sentence) seems to say I
>should get a closeField.  Am I misunderstanding this?

I also ran into this, and will verify it.  I worked around it by trapping
instead on closeCard.  This works for me because my stack only gets added to,
so that I do the extra processing only on the "last" card being closed.  Does
that make sense?  Anyway, the extra time to detect whether this is the last
card is itself noticable.  I would also appreciate any other ideas people have.

-- 
-Brian Diehm     (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)
Tektronix, Inc.
briand@tekig4.TEK.COM   or  {decvax,cae780,uw-beaver}!tektronix!tekig4!briand