activating palette loses textselection?

Klaus Major klaus at major-k.de
Wed Apr 2 07:38:21 EDT 2008


Hi Richard,

>> Klaus Major wrote:
>>
>>> I have a couple of palettes and toplevel stacks open here.
>>> Now when I select some text in a field of a non palette stack
>>> and click on a button/list field in a palette, the selection  
>>> disappers,
>>> so "the selectedchunk" is empty in that case.
>>> Too bad if you are working on a text-formatting palette window :-)
>>> BUT this does not happen with all palettes (only with the text   
>>> formatting thing, of course!)?!
>> Which palettes does this not happen with?
> My "2lzs2" palette for instance.

I found out what causes this behaviour:
If the palette contains ANY field, then the selection disappears!

BUT, I does not really disappear, the selection is just not visible!
If I activate the stack with the original selection again, the  
selection becomes visible again.

>> I've not been able to find a good solution for my own text  
>> formatting palette, so on the recommendation of some of the folks  
>> here I store the current selection when the mouse enters the  
>> palette, then restore the selection when they click.  Dumb, I  
>> know, but it gets me through the day.
> I already store "the selectedchunk" but "restoring" it again is a  
> good idea :-)

But does not work, see above :-/

Any hints on how to create a text-formatting palette that keeps the  
original selection
visible are very welcome.

Of course I store the selectedchunk and so can modify it, bit I don't  
think it is a good
user experience when text changes while there is no VISIBLE selection.


Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de





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