On Friday, May 30, 2003, at 12:38  AM, Alain Pastor wrote:

>
>
> Robert Covington wrote:
>> How does one get the active edit field ID in a window which has 3 of 
>> them?
>> I need to attach a numerical filter to the edit fields and want to 
>> have just 1 filter, not 3.
>> Wish I could just call  activeField = Edit$(_outputField)
>>  (too easy huh )
>
> I suppose the usual function works in the Appearance runtime although 
> I have yet to try:
>
> WINDOW(_efNum)
>
> Alain
>
>> How does one get the active edit field ID in a window which has 3 of 
>> them?
>>
>> I need to attach a numerical filter to the edit fields and want to 
>> have just 1 filter, not 3.
>>
>
> "WINDOW(_efNum) returns the ID number of the currently active edit 
> field or picture field; or zero if there is no currently active edit 
> field or picture field."  --Ref Man p. 608
>

< argh >

Damn, I knew that a year ago! That's embarassing.   Can you tell I 
don't work with edit fields very much?

It would be more intuitively obvious to really tired burnt out people 
if this was   id = Edit$(_outputEf)   and not a Window FN.

Now that I am not really tired, I can see that clearly. :)

Trick seems to be in the fn FBgetControlRef( c as ControlRef )  (was 
looking for that before I posted, but forgot the Window()  connection)


Robert