Highlighting an editable text sprite

I have a bunch of form type of pages on my stage. User enters
text,
jumps to a new screen, edits more text. Typically, the cursor
will be
blinking at the sprite in the lowest channel, which would
ebbe my top
item on the page. Sometimes, I may have form1 that has the
same text
member as form 2. If, in form1, you clicked text2, then go to
form2,
which also has that text in slot 2, the cursor shows there
instead of
the top text sprite (slot1). How would I fix that? And what
if I wanted
text 3 to have the cursor ? How would I get the cursor to be
set to a
specific text sprite and how would I get it to be highlighted
like if
you selected all the text in that member?
Hope that was clear.
Thanks.

Mike Blaustein wrote:
> You can set the placement of the cursor using the
keyboardFocusSprite....
>
> the keyboardFocusSprite=3
Hi Mike,
Want to help debug something I'm doing in this area. I'm also
using 'the
keyboardFocusSprite' but with a variable. Variable can keep
increasing
(when you click a button, a new item is added and the next
editable text
should become active). The first time I click the 'add'
button, it works
OK, but subsequent times, it does not work.
Here's a sample of my code for the add button:
gWelcomeNamesList.add([#name : "New Name", #image : ""])
s = gWelcomeNamesList.count
put s
repeat while s > 8 -- there are 8 items on my list
s = s - 8
end repeat
put s
spriteFocus = 9 + (s * 7) -- formula based on where editable
sprites are
in Score
put spriteFocus
the keyboardFocusSprite = spriteFocus
put the keyboardFocusSprite
In my Message window, I can see the list count gets bigger
each time I
click (first s)
Gets the position of the sequence of 8 correct (second s)
get the spriteFocus value correct
'the keyboardFocusSprite = spriteFocus' -- works the first
time
second time 'the keyboardFocusSprite = spriteFocus' doesn't
seem to be
activated. The last line 'put the keyboardFocusSprite' still
shows the
focus to be the prior sprite, not the new one which is now
accurately
defined by 'spirteFocus'.
That make sense? Any ideas?
regards
Dean
Director Lecturer / Consultant
http://www.fbe.unsw.edu.au/learning/director
http://www.multimediacreative.com.au

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