Unable to understand the help text

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Hi,

I (obviously *) had troubles reading the text (screen shot below). I wanted to add an event to a TextField:

Please, watch this screen shot carefully.

  • I was not sure of what to do. Since this screen shot was done on 2014-05-04, I do not recall the details.
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Select the event you wish to add and press OK

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Can you be more specific about your problem? If any…

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My guess is that he’s looking at the Open event for a TextField, but the help text on the window says “The window is about to open.”

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I can’t see a problem here. Isn’t that help text true?

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I was feeling insecured.

If you think the text is correct for the TextField.Open Event, it is OK for me too.

Thank you.

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The docs say for the RectControl Open event:

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Yes, but it’s probably a little more intuitive with the “Use this event to initialize a control” text.

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[quote=102434:@Emile Schwarz]I was feeling insecured.

If you think the text is correct for the TextField.Open Event, it is OK for me too.

Thank you.[/quote]

The confusion probably comes from thinking what’s “opening” is the control. In reality what’s opening is the window that contains it.

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“The window containing the Textfield is about to open.”

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But if the TextField (or other RectControl) is part of a control set, the Open event handler for newly created members of the set may run well after the window opened.

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We could write a book about this but its intended to be a quick bit of help and not an exhaustive reference in that spot

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“Fired at Control * Open time.”

Isn’t that better ?

IMHO: at that time (Add an Open Event to a TextField), I do not care about the Window. And, since the Control(s) open hierarchy is undefined, who cares ?

  • TextField) in that case.

There are probably better subjects to write chapters to.

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They’re not coded individually, but taken directly from the language reference.

I’d say try it. If it’s not what you wanted, delete it and try again.