Re: text field focus and placement of cursor

Hi Johan,

    I haven't tried this myself but according to the Text widget 
methods, there is a SetCursor
method:

$text->SetCursor( position )

    Moves the insert mark to position.

That sounds more like the method you want to use...  Try that.

(As a side note, try installing the ActiveState perl distribution on a 
Windows box...  You'll
find a great compendium of documentation on a lot of perl modules that 
you may or may
not have installed.  The Tk stuff in particular is very useful...  If 
nothing else, install it and copy
the entire HTML docs directory to your work system...)

Good luck.

Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 20:03 +0200, Johan Meskens CS3 jmcs3 wrote:
>   
>> hello
>>
>>
>> the body always repeats the subject in addition of a few words
>>
>> my question:
>>
>> what are the methods to let a text field take focus
>> and put the cursor at a specific position within that text field ?
>>     
>
> i found the following:
>
> $textfield->focus; 
> $textfield->icursor( "1.0" );
>
> but i get the error:
> Tk::Error: Can't locate auto/Tk/Text/icursor.al in @INC ... etc.
>
> so i guess icursor is not a method that textfields respond to ?
>
> thanks
> jmcs3
>
>   
>> thank you
>>  - also thank you for yesterday's answers to the hlist question !
>>
>> kind regards
>> jmcs3
>>     
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