Field highlited

[Bob Sneidar]

I do not see how that could work. In Windows, buttons can have the focus, which means a field would always lose it. 

What I do when I need something like this is I save the selection (or selectedChunk or some such thing) as a property of the field upon exitField. You could even put that in a frontScript and reference the target. Then in the field script re-select the text upon enterField. 

Bob S


> On Jul 12, 2023, at 3:21 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I have a LC9 field object - just a scrolling field (not a list field) with a lot of text. The user selects some text and then click a button near the field. I want the selection to remain highlighted, but when you click outside the field the highlight goes away.
> 
> Any simple solutions to this. Some property I am just blanking on? In another app, I've used the "selectionChanged" message to (1) set the background color of the selection to a highlight color and store the start and end characters as custom properties of the field. I'm hoping there is an easier way I am just missing.
> 
> OR
> 
> There should be a feature enhancement: set the preserveHighlight of field X to true
> That keeps the highlighted selection unless or until you make a new one in that field