Cmd-A doesn't work from Keyboard in Standalone

[Sivakatirswami]

WEll you can't block it in the IDE very easily.. but I found that if  
I had  just this:

on commandKeyDown theKey
   switch theKey
   case "a"
     if the selectedField is not empty then
       select text of the selectedField
     end if
     break
   end switch
end commandKeyDown

then cmd-x,c,v (copy, cut, paste) were all blocked... so I suspect if  
you have a commandKeyDown theKey  handler, and no "a" case, then it  
might get blocked, at least in a standalone. but then you have to  
code them all, which I did finally.


on commandKeyDown theKey
   switch theKey
   case "a"
     if the selectedField is not empty then
       select text of the selectedField
     end if
     break
   Case "x"
     if the selection is empty then exit to top
      cut
     break
   case "c"
       if the selection is empty then exit to top
       copy
     break
   case "v"
     paste
     break
   end switch
end commandKeyDown

Sivakatirswami




On Nov 16, 2005, at 4:29 PM, Charles Hartman wrote:

> I'm curious about this too, because I have found that *blocking*  
> cmd-A (= select all) in a field is very hard, meaning I haven't  
> found a way to do it. (So I had the opposite problem from the o.p.)  
> Oddly enough, cmd-C (= copy) seems also to work by itself, but I  
> found I had to write code to implement cmd-V (= paste). Puzzling.