Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!apple!dan
From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: ArrowKeys vs The Scroll
Keywords: ArrowKeys, Scroll
Message-ID: <17105@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Sep 88 07:01:34 GMT
References: <553@vulet.let.vu.nl.UUCP>
Reply-To: dan@apple.com.UUCP (Dan Allen)
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
Lines: 35

In article <553@vulet.let.vu.nl.UUCP> koster@let.vu.nl (C. Koster) writes:
>
>I found something strange: When I do:
>
>> on idle
>>  put the scroll of MyField into msg
>>  put " - " & the selectedchunk after msg
>> end idle
>
>and use the up/down arrowkeys to move around in the field
>and the field scrolls to keep the blinking cursor in view
>the messagebox doesn't show the new "the scroll". I know 
>"idle" is being called as selectedchunk keeps changing. As
>soon as I click where the blinking cursor is the messagebox 
>displays the right values.
>If I use "automatic scrolling" then the value of "the scroll"
>adjusts as you'd expect it to do.
>
>Why doesn't HC do the job when the arrowkey's are being used?
>
>I'm using HC 1.2.1 under System 6.0 on a MacPlus.

This is commonly known as a BUG.  It has been fixed since 1.2.1 was
released and will be in the next version of HyperCard released.  (The
fix will be in the next version, the bug will NOT be.-))


>Oh, and while I'm at it, what's wrong with:
>
>> repeat with i = 1 to 3
>>   do "put" && quote & "ShakeYourThing" & quote && "into a" & i
>> end repeat

I am not quite sure what you are doing here, but it seems like you are
putting "ShakeYourThing" into three variables, a1, a2, and a3.