popup in selected text in unlocked field

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Hi Stephen,

here's what you need:
[script]
local mylastselection

on mousedown x
  put the selectedchunk of me into mylastselection
  if mylastselection is not empty then select mylastselection
  if x is 3 then
  lock messages
  popup "EditMenu" at the mouseloc
  end if
  -- pass mousedown
end mousedown
[/script]

Works like a charm! Tested in the TAOO documentation stack
with a custom stack-menu named EditMenu. Just add the script above to the
field "content" script

The TAOO doc stack is here:
http://www.monsieurx.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=166

cheers
Xavier
http://monsieurx.com


On 20.05.2005 06:56:11 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>I know there's some kind of trick here to do this;
>
>
>I have an unlocked, editable field with text. I select a portion of
>the text, then option click on it for a popup that has a few options
>to select from to do something to the text, like uppercase,
>lowercase, etc.
>
>This changing works with a button and an option menu combo, but not
>in a contextual button. Any activity on the field kills the selection.
>
>Attempting this always loses the selection, then there's nothing to
>change, and all attempts to save the selection range description to a
>global still don't seem to work.
>
>I'm sure there's a dance of locking and unlocking to get this to
>work, but I haven't found it yet... any ideas...?..
>
>thanks
>
>sqb
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