Turn off drag-n-drop text?

[Phil Davis]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
To: <metacard at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: Turn off drag-n-drop text?


> FlexibleLearning at aol.com wrote:
> 
> > In a message dated 15/08/2002 06:00:37 PM GMT Daylight Time,
> > metacard-request at lists.runrev.com writes:
> > 
> > How does one disable drag-n-drop text editing?
> > 
> > 
> > Lock the text.  :)
> 
> I should have explained the context:  I need to allow text to be selectable,
> with the ability to copy but not alter it in any way.  This is a read-only
> text viewer.


Try this Richard - it works: lock the text AND set the traversalOn to true. That'll let you select (to copy and then paste somewhere else), but you can't change it.

Phil


> 
> I can trap keyboard events easily enough to stop those, but that still
> leaves the mystery of disabling drag-n-drop....
>  
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