Re: Editing Text Selections?
I think I see what you are trying to achieve. But even if Rev supported discontinuous selections in an editable field, how would you actually select the various chunks? Normally, the current selection is released when you click somewhere else in the field. But if you did it by holding down the commandKey, which also generates a mouseUp message, then couldn't you: on mouseUp set the textstyle of the selectedChunk to bold storeHTMLTextSomeWhere end mouseUp I am interested to see how the multiple selections are actually made if this is a new feature in an upcoming release. CommandKey as in a list field? Craig Newman ___ 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
Editing Text Selections?
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 ___ 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: Editing Text Selections?
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 sc...@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 ___ 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 ___ 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: Editing Text Selections?
I have heard rumors of advanced text control in the next major version of rev. I wonder, if that is not too far off, if it wouldn't be worth it to wait until that update, preceded by numerous pleas to the powers that be to implement such functionality so as to make your present conundrum moot? (Gawd I love using big words!) Bob Sneidar IT Manager Calvary Chapel CM Sent from iPhone On May 24, 2010, at 20:51, Terry Judd t...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: 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 ___ 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
