Selected Text

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Warren,

It looks like the problem is not the selectedText but the mouseUp message. Unlocked fields don't receive a mouseUp message when the user clicks in such a field, but control-click and command-click do trigger a mouseUp message. So, either you have to provide a way to lock and unlock the field as necessary or you need to tell the user that control-click or command-click will allow him or her to edit or process selected text.

You can't have a field editable without allowing the user to drag text around, but you can allow the user to select text without making the field editable. If you lock the text but don't turn off the traversalOn, then the text will be selectable but not editable. Or don't you want the user to be able to select text? In this case, turn off the traversalOn too.

If the lockText of a field is true and the traversalOn is tru too, you will be able to click in a field and trigger the mouseUp message that way, without pressing the command or control key.

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On 7 sep 2010, at 19:59, Warren Kuhl wrote:

> 1) I am trying to return the selected text in a field.  It looks like
> this can only be done on locked text.  Is there anyway around this?
> 
> In the field I am trying:
> 
> on mouseup
>   answer selectedtext()
> end mouseup
> 
> The above is only true when the field is locked.
> 
> 2) Also...how do I prevent text to be dragable in a field?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 
> Warren