The selectedText for controls without focus

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > On Feb 24, 2017, at 22:09 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >>
 >> on rawkeydown k
 >>   if k = 99 then
 >>      if the commandKey is "down" then copy
 >>   end if
 >> end rawkeydown
 >
 > For that matter I could just check the status of the "state" property
 > (view | new | edit) to allow/disallow editing. Not saying there are
 > not workarounds. I just think that LC should work like virtually
 > every other forms based app I've ever used, where being editable is
 > not a prerequisite for copying text.

The purpose of that script is not to allow copying, but to disallow 
cutting and pasting.

LC is a programming toolkit, and a very flexible one, with a wider range 
of GUI messages than most other scripting languages. The price of 
flexibility is the need to write code now and then.

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