can't select text of field with traversalOn and lockText set to true

Bob Sneidar bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com
Fri Jul 10 16:53:03 EDT 2015


My experience is that cut and paste will not work with traversalOn set to false. Personally I would like it much better if you could. Almost everywhere in applications you can select text, you can at least copy it. 

Bob S


> On Jul 9, 2015, at 10:27 , Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> According to the dictionary,
> 
> If a field's traversalOn and lockText properties are both set to true, the
> user can select text, but not change it, and can scroll within the field
> using the keyboard.
> 
> However, I have a pair of fields with these set to true where I can't
> select the text .  Could this be related to opening the stack as modal?
> (it's an error dialog, and I want to be a able to cut & paste!)
> 
> 
> 
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