Right click in field for menu

[Klaus major-k]

Hi Peter,

> Am 01.06.2022 um 22:53 schrieb Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Hi, I finding that after right-clicking in the field and then showing the button popup menu, the focus is shifted to the menu. That’s good. However, if there was text selected in the field that I want to copy or clear, the selection is now lost since the focus was shifted.
> I can grab the selected characters before invoking the popup menu and then reselect the original characters in the field to do the edit action. But that seems to be kludge.
> Is there a better way to edit a selection in a field using a menu popup?

unfortunately the "traversalon" property of popup menu buttons is set to TRUE by default. 
This will "steal" the focus! :-/

Use the message box (prop is also missing in the inspector) to set it to FALSE and it will work as advertised.
...
set the traversalon of btn "your popup here..." to FALSE
...

> Peter

Best

Klaus

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