selectedText from a palette?
depstein at att.net
depstein at att.net
Thu Sep 9 11:13:10 EDT 2004
Rich Layne wrote:
> I trying to make an application that has most of its functionality on
> a palette-- a bunch of different buttons that will do different stuff
> to the main data stack. Most things work, but handlers that involve the
> selectedText dont seem to make it to the main stack, (which is the
> topStack.)
My experience using Metacard 2.5 is that when you click on a palette the selection in the topStack is lost, so the selectedText is empty. I use these handlers in my palette's script as a way of recording and restoring the selection:
on mouseEnter
global chunkStore
get the selectedChunk
if it is empty then put empty into chunkStore else put it && "of" && word -2 to -1 of the long id of the selectedField into chunkStore
end mouseEnter
on mouseDown
global chunkStore
if chunkStore is not empty then do "select" && chunkStore
end mouseDown
So on mouseUp, the selection is where you want it and references to it should work properly.
There is a slight flashing associated with the selection being lost and restored, so I'd be interested to hear other methods.
David Epstein
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