Why... is the selected text deselected?

Jan Schenkel janschenkel at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 18 16:43:00 EST 2003


--- Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Alex Rice <alrice at ARCplanning.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 01:49  PM, Jan
> > Schenkel wrote:
> > >
> > > This way you can send a "revertSelection" to the
> > field
> > > when you return from your other stack.
> > 
> > Thanks, I already have an updateUI message which I
> > could use for this 
> > purpose. However, I am still unclear on WHY the
> > hilite gets removed 
> > when the user goes to the next card. How can I
> > prevent that from 
> > happening?
> > 
> 
> Hi Alex,
> 
> No guarantee that this will work, but what happens
> if
> you set its 'sharedText' property to true ?
> 

Never mind, I checked it myself, and it would only
help if the field was grouped with bg behaviour and
the group was on both cards.
Going to a card without that bg group and back, meant
losing the selection. Maybe someone else has a better
idea that actually works?

Jan Schenkel.

=====
"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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