Re: How do I select text in a field?
This command does not work in the Message Box, apparently since the message box entry field retains the focus. However, when you create a button with only this command in the mouseUp handler it ought to work just fine. Are you doing other things with your button script that might get in the way? Dan Curiousthis works here. You don't have an 'on openField' or some other handler that might interfere? Mark On 9 Jan 2006, at 01:42, Bill Vlahos wrote: I want to programatically select text in a field as if I had doubleclicked it. For example... I want to select word 4 of a field. When I enter the following statement in the Message Box or in a button: select word 4 of field one The insertion point flashes in the field and the focus border flashes but no text is selected. How do I do this? Bill Vlahos ___ 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
How do I select text in a field?
I want to programatically select text in a field as if I had doubleclicked it. For example... I want to select word 4 of a field. When I enter the following statement in the Message Box or in a button: select word 4 of field one The insertion point flashes in the field and the focus border flashes but no text is selected. How do I do this? Bill Vlahos ___ 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: How do I select text in a field?
Curiousthis works here. You don't have an 'on openField' or some other handler that might interfere? Mark On 9 Jan 2006, at 01:42, Bill Vlahos wrote: I want to programatically select text in a field as if I had doubleclicked it. For example... I want to select word 4 of a field. When I enter the following statement in the Message Box or in a button: select word 4 of field one The insertion point flashes in the field and the focus border flashes but no text is selected. How do I do this? Bill Vlahos ___ 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: How Do I Select Text in a Field?
The field displays the contents of a file selected from a list field. This list is refreshed (because files are being added to the storage folder at random intervals) with the following button script: on mouseUp getFiles - checks the contents of the storage folder and puts the list in the list field send mouseUp to me in 60 seconds - so I click the button once and it runs all day :) end mouseUp Could this activity be causing the text to be deselected? Is there a better way to time a repeating task to allow for normal stack operation? Yes - if you are putting a new list into the field every minute, whenever that new data is put into the field, your selection will be lost. If it is a list field, then the easiest way to go is to store the hilitedLines at the start of the mouseUp and reset them at the end. If it is not a list field, you will have to store the selectedChunk and then select it at the end. Cheers, Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How Do I Select Text in a Field?
Ken, the field is a plain scrolling field with a vertical scroll bar. The following Basic Properties are checked: Visible, Don't wrap, Opaque, Focusable, Show border (Border width 2), Hilites: Autohilite text Text is Courier 12 point left justified The field displays the contents of a file selected from a list field. This list is refreshed (because files are being added to the storage folder at random intervals) with the following button script: on mouseUp getFiles - checks the contents of the storage folder and puts the list in the list field send mouseUp to me in 60 seconds - so I click the button once and it runs all day :) end mouseUp Could this activity be causing the text to be deselected? Is there a better way to time a repeating task to allow for normal stack operation? Appreciate the great help! joe. Ken said: I know I'm missing something simple here... I have a very simple field that contains text. lockText is false and traversalOn is true. But when I select any text in the field it doesn't stay selected. -- What kind of field is it? I can't reproduce this situation, i.e., text always selects ok unless traversalon is false or locktext is true or hilite text is false, Ken N. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How Do I Select Text in a Field?
Joe, Just a hunch but why don't you try send getFiles to me in 60 seconds Instead of send mouseUp Could be between any mouse events by you and the ato mouse events, the field looses track of what is where. Jim From: Gardner, Joseph A [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: How to use Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 08:45:42 +0900 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How Do I Select Text in a Field? on mouseUp getFiles - checks the contents of the storage folder and puts the list in the list field send mouseUp to me in 60 seconds - so I click the button once and it runs all day :) end mouseUp ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
How Do I Select Text in a Field?
I know I'm missing something simple here... I have a very simple field that contains text. lockText is false and traversalOn is true. But when I select any text in the field it doesn't stay selected. The highlighted text immediately reverts to unselected text and the cursor moves to the top left corner of the field (before the first character) when I release the mouse. Is there any other property that I need to set to allow text selection? joe. p.s. Rev 2.1.2, OS X ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: How Do I Select Text in a Field?
It looks like some other handler is changing the selection after you make it. Open up the Message Watcher, select your text and see what messages are being triggered and acted on. Sarah I have a very simple field that contains text. lockText is false and traversalOn is true. But when I select any text in the field it doesn't stay selected. The highlighted text immediately reverts to unselected text and the cursor moves to the top left corner of the field (before the first character) when I release the mouse. Is there any other property that I need to set to allow text selection? joe. ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
