Drag and Drop Text into a field

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Mon Sep 26 16:51:10 EDT 2011


Thanks Peter, that sounds like it should work, I guess I'd assumed that LC
would remember the selected text.

The dictionary says that if no text is selected, the end char part of the
selectedChunk is less than the startchar so I guess I'll need to check for
that so that a normal insert works.

Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD <pmbrig at gmail.com>wrote:

> You could set a customprop of the field control on mouseleave:
>
> on mouseleave
>   set the uSelChunk of me to the selectedchunk
> end mouseleave
>
> then in your dragdrop handler:
>
> put the uSelChunk of fld "targetField" into selCh
> put word 2 of selCh into startChar
> put word 4 of selCh into endChar
> put the clipboardData["text"] into char startChar to endChar of fld
> "targetField"
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
>
> On Sep 26, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Pete wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to find a way to drag and drop text from a datagrid into a
> field
> > control.  If no text is selected in the field control, the text should be
> > inserted at the insertion point; if text is selected, the dragged text
> > should replace the selected text.
> >
> > The way I'm doing this is:
> >
> > - The dragStart handler for the datagrid places the text I want to insert
> > into the clipboardData["text"]
> > - The dragEnter handler for the field control sets the focus on the field
> > control
> > - The dragDrop handler for the field control issues a paste command
> >
> > That all works fine when no text is selected in the field control, LC
> > appears to remember where the insertion is in the field control.
>  However,
> > let's say I select some text in the field control.  As soon as I click on
> a
> > line in the datagrid to start the drag/drop operation, the text is no
> longer
> > selected in the field control and when I drop the text into the field
> > control it is inserted at what was the end point of the text I had
> > originally selected.
> >
> > To illustrate, if the field control contains "This is my Text" and I
> select
> > the word "my", then drag the text "your" to the field Control, it will be
> > inserted right after "my" instead of replacing it.
> >
> > Am I setting about this the wrong way or can this approach be made to
> work
> > somehow?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Pete
> > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
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