command-click on a word

[Peter M. Brigham]

On Oct 1, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> Command clicking and right-clicking are the same thing in OS x (unless you changed the default prefs).

Unless I am mistaken, this is not true. In OSX, control-clicking and right clicking are the same thing, but not the same as command-clicking -- the common denominator is that they both trigger a mouseup message even in an unlocked field. E.g., put this in a field script and you'll see the difference:

on mouseup tBtn
   if tBtn = 3 then
      put "controlkey:" && the clicktext
   else if the commandkey is down then
      put "commandkey:" && the clicktext
   end if
end mouseup

Control-click on a word and you'll get the "controlkey" branch, command-click on a word and you'll get the "commandkey" branch. I don't find anything in the preferences that changes this, but maybe I'm missing something….

You can roll your own popup menu for what you want. I have a library with a button and a script for a function "popChoose" that makes this very easy:

put "choice 1" & cr & "second choice" & cr & "last choice" into tChoices
put popChoose(tChoices) into userChoice
switch userChoice
   case "choice 1"
      <snip>

If anyone wants this then I'll post it.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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