[REBOL] Field event "missing in action"
From: brett:codeconscious at: 18-May-2001 13:12
Hi List,
Hoping someone can help.
It seems to me that the action of a field is coded to fire when edits to the
field are finalised by moving off the field to
another face. But it looks like a close window event is not included.
Example, executing the following at a console gives a simple entry form.
view layout [ f: field [alert "activated"] ]
Tab key and Enter key activate the alert. But clicking on the close - window
icon ie the X at the top right
of the window does not activate the alert... I'm wondering how I can get it
to fire.
I know I can trap the close event using detect but I don't know how I can
use this to solve the above problem.
Why am I doing this? The obvious, set a dirty flag. I know a dirty? flag
exists in fields and that one can trawl through all
the entry fields to check if any are dirty, but I just want to approach it
from another viewpoint - besides my application
works "perfectly" except for trapping of the first change and then close
window.
Brett.