How do I change the textcolor of the selected text in a native iOS field?

[J. Landman Gay]

Yeah, I'm afraid you're right. I don't see any way set set a property on a range of characters 
in a native input control. If the app doesn't strictly need copy/paste you could probably use a 
LC field instead.

On 4/14/21 12:22 PM, William de Smet via use-livecode wrote:
> Thanks for pointing me to "selectedRange".
> 
> put mobileControlGet ("field1", "selectedRange") into myTest
> -- answer myTest  //gives range 1,5
> mobileControlSet "field1", "textColor", "255,0,0"
> 
> This doesn't work because all text will be colored and not just the
> selectedRange.
> 
> 
> greetings,
> 
> William
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Op di 13 apr. 2021 om 21:11 schreef J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
>> On 4/13/21 6:15 AM, William de Smet via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> How do I get the selectedText of a native iOS field?
>>> I want to change the color of the text selection in the field.
>>
>> I think you want "selectedRange" which returns the start index and the
>> length of the text
>> selected. Judging from the dictionary it looks like it only works on
>> multiline fields.
>>
>>
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