Contextual (popup) menus and their options
Bonjour Eric, If only I would look in the Documentation for this command, I would not waste your time. Thank you for explaining, your time, and your grace. :-) Regards, Mark Stuart ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Contextual (popup) menus and their options
Bonjour Mark, Sorry if I was not clear enough. As I said, the selectedChunk, that returns a chunk expression describing the location of the text selection or insertion point, is always something like char 4 to 3 of field 1 (insertion point is placed after char 3 but there is no text selection), char 4 to 4 of field 1 (char 4 is selected), char 1 to 4 of field 1 (char 1 to 4 is selected). word 1 of the selectedChunk = 'char' word 2 of the selectedChunk = word 3 of the selectedChunk = 'to' word 4 of the selectedChunk = etc. These integers are those that interest us :-) 'char 4 to 3 of field 1' -> '2 < 4' ->' word 2 < word 4' -> insertion point but no selected text 'char 1 to 4 of field 1' -> '1 < 4' ->' word 2 > word 4' -> selected text Why word 4 is less than word 2? A simple convention to distinguish when the insertion point is in the field if there is some selected text also or not. When word 4 is less than word 2, this means that the insertion point is in the field after char 'word 4 of the selectedText' but there is no selected text. If word 4 is more than word 2, this means that char 'word 2 of the selectedText' to 'word 4 of the selectedText' are currently selected. See selectedChunk, selectedField, selectedText in the docs. Le 25 août 08 à 00:57, Mark Stuart a écrit : But I'm not sure what this part of your script does, what it is checking for? if word 4 of the selectedChunk < word 2 of the selectedChunk then Why word 4 and why word 2? And why word 4 is less than word 2? Best regards from Paris, Eric Chatonet. Plugins and tutorials for Revolution: http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Contextual (popup) menus and their options
Bonjour Eric, Put your script into my field, and it's working, thank you. But I'm not sure what this part of your script does, what it is checking for? if word 4 of the selectedChunk < word 2 of the selectedChunk then Why word 4 and why word 2? And why word 4 is less than word 2? Are these the menu items? And I'm assuming the selectedChunk is testing for any selected text. Regards, Mark Stuart ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Contextual (popup) menus and their options
Bonjour Mark,
An Edit menu, if you want to stay compliant with all platforms
guidelines, should always show the 'Cut, Copy, Paste' trilogy as a
minimum.
Of course, you can disable the menu items you don't want the user to
use but they *must* be there with their usual shortcuts :-)
So in your case, just build the menu on-the-fly at mouseDown and
disable the Copy item according to the value of the selectedChunk:
It's always something like char 4 to 3 of field 1 (insertion point is
placed after char 3 but there is no text selection), char 4 to 4 of
field 1 (char 4 is selected), char 1 to 4 of field 1 (char 1 to 4 is
selected)...
on mouseDown pButton
local tMenu
-
if pButton = 3 then
if the selectedField = empty or target = empty then exit mouseDown
if the short name of the selectedField = the short name of the
target then
-- it's the right field
put "(Cut/X,Copy/C,(Paste/V,-,Select All/A" into tMenu
-- easier to build the menu using commas
replace comma with cr in tMenu
-- cut and paste are always disabled
if word 4 of the selectedChunk < word 2 of the selectedChunk then
put "(" before line 2 of tMenu
-- there is nothing to copy: copy is disabled
end if
put tMenu into btn "MyMenu"
popup btn "MyMenu"
end if
else pass mouseDown
end mouseDown
Of course you'll set the traversalOn of the popup menu button to
false to avoid text deselection.
Le 24 août 08 à 22:56, Mark Stuart a écrit :
Hi All,
I have a contextual menu (popup) on a text field with several
options. One
of them is Select All.
This allows the user to select all the text in this field.
If the user actuates the contextual menu again, the Select All
option should
still be there, but also a new option is selectable - Copy - copies
all
selected text to the clipboard.
So the question is, how do I detect if text is selected in a text
field, and
then dynamically "change out" the menu option by adding "Copy" to it?
Regards,
Mark Stuart
Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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Contextual (popup) menus and their options
Hi All, I have a contextual menu (popup) on a text field with several options. One of them is Select All. This allows the user to select all the text in this field. If the user actuates the contextual menu again, the Select All option should still be there, but also a new option is selectable - Copy - copies all selected text to the clipboard. So the question is, how do I detect if text is selected in a text field, and then dynamically "change out" the menu option by adding "Copy" to it? Regards, Mark Stuart ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
