Right click in field for menu
Peter Bogdanoff
bogdanoff at me.com
Thu Jun 2 14:48:23 EDT 2022
Klaus, thank you. Such a simple fix!
> On Jun 2, 2022, at 3:07 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> 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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