popup in selected text in unlocked field

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Stephen,

Did you see Jacqueline's answer: I think she is right even if it's  
quite a job...
All the more reason since you might want to be cross-platform...

Le 20 mai 05 à 20:51, Stephen Barncard a écrit :

> Mister X, Eric, thanks for your help - Eric is right, your code  
> won't work on MacOS. There are forces at work here fighting me with  
> some 'automatic' behavior in regard to the selection in a field.  
> One thing it's trying to do is to select a single word, then it  
> hangs on to that selection.
>
> My major complaint about OSX is the way the simple text editing  
> functions (probably at the firmware level) have radically changed,  
> for the worse since OS9. It takes a lot more unneeded clicking (to  
> edit a filename, for instance) to get around these multiple  
> 'helpful' behaviors in a field. And it used to be far easier doing  
> tricks with the selection in a script. Is there a way to turn off  
> that auto-stuff, for just a millisecond?

Unfortunately not :-(
But I may be wrong...

Best regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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