Editing Text Selections?

[Terry Judd]

Hi Scott - not sure whether it's the accepted way but it's what I've done in
the past. If you can get by with buttons and menus for your editing
selections then you wont have to go down this road but if you must have
fields then I can't think of a viable alternative.

Terry...

On 25/05/10 1:25 PM, "Scott Rossi" <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> Sorry for posting what I'm sure is a beaten-horse topic, but I feel like I'm
> reinventing the wheel here and am under a deadline...
> 
> Since Rev is incapable of maintaining multiple text selections, is the
> "proper" way to create a text editor (ie: select some text in a field, and
> for example, set the size of the text using another field) to create an
> artificial selection of the selected text?  In the list archives, I read the
> technique of setting the backColor of the selected text so that it appears
> to remain selected while focus changes to fields in the "editor".  Is this
> the accepted way to go about setting up a text editor?
> 
> I'm asking because it's seems like a fragile arrangement, easy to generate
> errors based on when text is actually selected versus when it's not.  I just
> wanted to make sure that this is the right method to use before I go too far
> in this direction.
> 
> Hope this makes sense -- thanks in advance for any
> suggestions/confirmations/rejections.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
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