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[J. Landman Gay]

As Phil suggested, the cantdelete property is provided for this. Any object with that property set can't  be selected easily. Mark's deletekey handler would make a good safeguard in addition.

Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com

On Sep 29, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> What I see is workaround for what is a bug in LC.  Definitely need to figure
> out a solution but report this to the QCC
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Mark Talluto <userev at canelasoftware.com>wrote:
> 
>> You can use the following messages to capture the delete and prevent it
>> from passing by checking if is one of the objects you wish to protect.
>> 
>> deleteKey
>> backspaceKey
>> 
>> --example
>> on deleteKey
>>  if "protect me" is in the short name of the selobj then
>> --do not delete
>> else
>>  pass deleteKey
>> end deleteKey
>> 
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Mark Talluto
>> http://www.canelasoftware.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Sep 28, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Art DiVito wrote:
>> 
>>> I need to prevent users from deleting a control by selecting it with the
>> pointer tool and hitting the delete key.
>>> According to the LiveCode dictionary (under "deletefield"), an "undo"
>> will work for fields. However, this appears to be true for buttons, but NOT
>> for fields. Thus,
>>> On deletebutton
>>> Answer "Can't do that!"
>>> send "undo" to this card in 5 milliseconds
>>> end deletebutton
>>> works fine. However,
>>> On deletefield
>>> 
>>> Answer "Can't do that!"
>>> 
>>> send "undo" to this card in 5 milliseconds
>>> 
>>> end deletefield
>>> does NOT work.
>>> I don't know whether it will work for images (I need to prevent them from
>> being deleted too).
>>> What can I do?
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
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