How Do I Select Text in a Field?

MisterX b.xavier at internet.lu
Thu Mar 11 13:38:23 EST 2004


The listbehavior maybe, it's not all that clean...

Otherwise you could have a rampant idle or send message event 
behind your stack... On keyup, selectionchanged handlers could 
nag you too if they are in the card grp or stack script... 

Reinstall everything ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Ken Norris
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 19:08
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: How Do I Select Text in a Field?
> 
> 
> HiJoseph,
> 
> > Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:41:01 +0900
> > From: "Gardner, Joseph A" <joe.gardner at nwa.com>
> > Subject: How Do I Select Text in a Field?
> > 
> > I know I'm missing something simple here...
> > 
> > I have a very simple field that contains text. lockText is false and
> > traversalOn is true. But when I select any text in the field it 
> doesn't stay
> > selected. The highlighted text immediately reverts to 
> unselected text and the
> > cursor moves to the top left corner of the field (before the 
> first character)
> > when I release the mouse. Is there any other property that I 
> need to set to
> > allow text selection?
> ----------
> What kind of field is it? I can't reproduce this situation, i.e., text
> always selects ok unless traversalon is false or locktext is true 
> or hilite
> text is false, 
> 
> Ken N.
> 
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