Selection strategies

[Richard Gaskin]

depstein at att.net wrote:

> Richard Gaskin noted that 
> 
> 
>>when text is selected in the field [of the topstack] the 
>>palette buttons work great, but if the cursor is inserted with no 
>>selection then clicking in the palette window causes the field to lose 
>>focus.
> 
> 
> My palette is a menu of pulldown buttons, and these handlers are in the palette's stack script:
> 
> on mouseEnter
>   global chunkStore
>   get the selectedChunk
>   if it is empty then put empty into chunkStore else put it && "of" && word -2 to -1 of the long id \
>       of the selectedField into chunkStore
> end mouseEnter
> 
> on mouseDown
>   global chunkStore
>   if chunkStore is not empty then do "select" && chunkStore
> end mouseDown

Good solution.  Ken also came up with this brainstorming with him on the 
phone last night.  I'll go that route for now, and have submitted a 
Bugzilla report for the future.

Thanks for the help.

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