The selectedText for controls without focus

[Richard Gaskin]

For a scriptless solution that's purely property-driven, what Jacque 
said covers normal click-and-drag selection at the small cost of 
multi-click selection.

And if you need multi-click selection and don't mind a small bit of 
scripting, putting this in a normal editable field seems to make it 
uneditable well enough while still allowing Copy to work:

on rawkeydown k
    if k = 99 then
       if the commandKey is "down" then copy
    end if
end rawkeydown

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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