popup in selected text in unlocked field

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Eric,

I dont have a minimac to test this but... in the popup menu stack, you 
could 
insert a selection handler in the pre-openstack... Would that work?

cheers
Xavier


On 20.05.2005 09:19:53 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>Hi Stephen,
>
>I have seen Xavier answer.
>Unfortunately, it does not work with Mac OS: you can't prevent text
>deselection when popping up a menu.
>But ;-)
>Only a "not really satisfying" workaround:
>
>Set the hiliteColor of your field ("#B5D5FF" for standard Mac OS for
>instance).
>Then, in the script of your field:
>
>on mouseDown pButton
>local tChunk
>-----
>if pButton = 3 then
>put the selectedChunk into tChunk
>if word 4 of tChunk > word 2 of tChunk then
>set the backcolor of the selectedChunk to the hiliteColor of me
>popup btn "MyMenu"
>end if
>end if
>end mouseDown
>--------------------------
>on selectionChanged
>set the backcolor of char 1 to -1 of me to empty
>end selectionChanged
>
>Best regards from Paris,
>
>Eric Chatonet.
>
>Le 20 mai 05 à 06:56, Stephen Barncard a écrit :
>
>> I know there's some kind of trick here to do this;
>>
>>
>> I have an unlocked, editable field with text. I select a portion of
>> the text, then option click on it for a popup that has a few
>> options to select from to do something to the text, like uppercase,
>> lowercase, etc.
>>
>> This changing works with a button and an option menu combo, but not
>> in a contextual button. Any activity on the field kills the selection.
>>
>> Attempting this always loses the selection, then there's nothing to
>> change, and all attempts to save the selection range description to
>> a global still don't seem to work.
>>
>> I'm sure there's a dance of locking and unlocking to get this to
>> work, but I haven't found it yet... any ideas...?..
>
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