activating palette loses textselection?

[Klaus Major]

Hi Richard,

>>> Klaus Major wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a couple of palettes and toplevel stacks open here.
>>>> Now when I select some text in a field of a non palette stack
>>>> and click on a button/list field in a palette, the selection  
>>>> disappers,
>>>> so "the selectedchunk" is empty in that case.
>>>> Too bad if you are working on a text-formatting palette window :-)
>>>> BUT this does not happen with all palettes (only with the text   
>>>> formatting thing, of course!)?!
>>> Which palettes does this not happen with?
>> My "2lzs2" palette for instance.
> I found out what causes this behaviour:
> If the palette contains ANY field, then the selection disappears!
> BUT, I does not really disappear, the selection is just not visible!
> If I activate the stack with the original selection again, the  
> selection becomes visible again.
>>> I've not been able to find a good solution for my own text  
>>> formatting palette, so on the recommendation of some of the folks  
>>> here I store the current selection when the mouse enters the  
>>> palette, then restore the selection when they click.  Dumb, I  
>>> know, but it gets me through the day.
>> I already store "the selectedchunk" but "restoring" it again is a  
>> good idea :-)
>
> But does not work, see above :-/

Correction:
Funny enough this (re-selecting "the selectedchunk") does work.

So thank you for this very useful hint!


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de