Select question

[HyperChris at aol.com]

So you are allowing your user to resize the field by switching to the Select 
tool but yet you want the text editing behavior of the Browse tool when the 
user clicks in the field? Hmmmm ... usually when folks want the user to have 
control over field sizing, they stay in the browse mode and use mouse and click 
controls to trigger the drag sizing of the field. I tried it your way, though, 
and it works! I just created mouseEnter and mouseLeave handlers to switch 
between the tools. The only odd part was being able to sneak up on a text field 
and select it for moving or sizing before it switched me to browse for editing. 
I did get that to work, though, by increasing the border width and then 
modifiying the mouse traps to allow for it's thickness before making the switch.

Is that what you meant ?

In a message dated 3/22/04 10:11:42 PM, 
use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com writes:
> I mean in an app.
> 
> On 3/23/04 2:50 PM, "Sarah Reichelt" <sarahr at genesearch.com.au> wrote:
> > Use the Contents section of the Inspector, or change back to the Browse
> > tool.
> >
> > On 23 Mar 2004, at 3:01 pm, Doug Lerner wrote:
> >> In an app I'm working on, if I have the select tool chosen and click
> >> on a
> >> text field I can move the text field, resize it and delete it. But I
> >> can't
> >> select the text inside the text field in order to modify it. What's the
> >> usual way of doing this?
>