Selected Text

[Warren Kuhl]

Jonathan,

No I have not.  In fact...I never even heard of this until now.  Thanks for
the suggestion I will look into this as well.

Appreciate it!
Warren

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Jonathan Lynch <jonathandlynch at gmail.com>wrote:

> Have you explored the selectionchanged message?
>
> For one of my applications, I use this for detecting clicks inside unlocked
> fields.
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Warren Kuhl <warrenkuhl at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Mark,
> >
> > Thanks for the explanation.  It really gaves me a good understand with
> how
> > the process works.  I will see if I can lock/unlock the field as
> necessary
> > as the user needs to ability to change the text.
> >
> > Appreciate your help!
> > Warren
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Mark Schonewille <
> > m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> > > 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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> > >
> > > Mark Schonewille
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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
> > >
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