Contextual menu trouble

William de Smet williamdesmet at gmail.com
Tue Jan 18 13:28:12 EST 2011


@John: Thanks for your code and stack.
And indeed this works. However when I put everything in a new stack it
works but in an existing stack with more fields and button it doesn't
:-(
Got me puzzled! Thanks again!

Greetings,

William



2011/1/18 John Dixon <dixonja at hotmail.co.uk>:
>
>
>
>> @John: with the Locktext set to true?
>> This way I cannot paste into the field.
>
> In the script of the field...
>
> on mouseDown
>   popUp button 1
> end mouseDown
>
> popUp button script
>
> on menuPick pItemName
>
>   /* find out which field has been clicked on */
>   put word 2 of the clickField into theFieldNo
>
>   switch pItemName
>      case "Paste"
>         /* check that the clipBoard is holding text */
>         if the clipboard is "text" then
>            /* put the text after whatever is already in the field */
>            put the clipboarddata after fld theFieldNo
>         else
>            /* if there was no text in the clipBoardData then beep */
>            beep
>         end if
>         break
>
>      case "Clear"
>         put empty into fld theFieldNo
>         break
>
>   end switch
> end menuPick
>
> Does this help ?
>
>
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