popup in selected text in unlocked field

[J. Landman Gay]

On 5/19/05 11:56 PM, Stephen Barncard 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 had to do this in my Boggle game. Are you using a popup button for the 
contextual menu? If so, try popping up a menu stack instead.

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