Re: mercy...Control-A and text selection revisited

2007-08-02 Thread Mark E. Powell
Hello Eric It does not work for me. For testing, I created a simple stack with one field and the script you suggested in the card script: www.aboutmyfiles.com/controlKeyDownTest.rev With the cursor in the field, control-A does nothing. If I choose Select All from the Rev IDE Edit menu, same

Re: mercy...Control-A and text selection revisited

2007-08-02 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Mark, Le 1 août 07 à 18:14, Mark E. Powell a écrit : After a user enters cursor in a fld (its traversalOn property is true), I want control-A to select the text of that fld. How do I do it? Sarah answered yet in the case you have a menu bar but may be you have not :-) A controlKeyDo

Re: mercy...Control-A and text selection revisited

2007-08-01 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On 8/2/07, Mark E. Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, the archives are not solving this for me and I need to throw myself on > the mercy of the list. > > After a user enters cursor in a fld (its traversalOn property is true), I > want control-A to select the text of that fld. How do I do

mercy...Control-A and text selection revisited

2007-08-01 Thread Mark E. Powell
Sorry, the archives are not solving this for me and I need to throw myself on the mercy of the list. After a user enters cursor in a fld (its traversalOn property is true), I want control-A to select the text of that fld. How do I do it? The focusedObject is the fld, but the controlkeydown mes

Re: Multiple text selection?

2007-06-26 Thread Sakari Ruoho
Cheers! That's all I needed to know.. :) Ken Ray wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:59:06 +0300, Sakari Ruoho wrote: Hello! Was wondering if this acclaim is true? You can select only one line at time in Revolution? For example I set the textSize for a selected text in a field and I use combob

Re: Multiple text selection?

2007-06-26 Thread Ken Ray
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:59:06 +0300, Sakari Ruoho wrote: > Hello! > > Was wondering if this acclaim is true? You can select only one line > at time in Revolution? For example I set the textSize for a selected > text in a field and I use combobox for this. If I type the textSize > in combobox th

Re: Multiple text selection?

2007-06-26 Thread Sakari Ruoho
I'm afraid I was not very clear in there.. I did mean if it is possible to select more than one chunk at time. Not one line at time.. need my morning coffee.. sorry about that, hopefully got it right this time :) Sakari Ruoho wrote: Hello! Was wondering if this acclaim is true? You can sele

Multiple text selection?

2007-06-26 Thread Sakari Ruoho
Hello! Was wondering if this acclaim is true? You can select only one line at time in Revolution? For example I set the textSize for a selected text in a field and I use combobox for this. If I type the textSize in combobox the selection changes, which is not the behavior I would like to see.

Re: text selection

2006-04-02 Thread Nicholas Thieberger
h 2.7? Thanks, Nick Nick, if you put 'select empty' anywhere in a script, it should make sure anything selected is de-selected. Best, Mark On 4/2/06, Nicholas Thieberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just moved to RR 2.7 from 2.0 and have discovered a problem &g

Re: text selection

2006-04-02 Thread LunchnMeets
In a message dated 4/2/06 6:35:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have just moved to RR 2.7 from 2.0 and have discovered a problem > with text selection. Apologies if this has been covered before but I > can't find a discussion of it in the archives. A stack that worked > fi

Re: text selection

2006-04-02 Thread Mark Smith
Nick, if you put 'select empty' anywhere in a script, it should make sure anything selected is de-selected. Best, Mark On 4/2/06, Nicholas Thieberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just moved to RR 2.7 from 2.0 and have discovered a problem > with text selection.

text selection

2006-04-02 Thread Nicholas Thieberger
I have just moved to RR 2.7 from 2.0 and have discovered a problem with text selection. Apologies if this has been covered before but I can't find a discussion of it in the archives. A stack that worked fine before now has a problem where the text of the main field is all selected even t

Re: text selection question

2005-06-12 Thread Bill Humphrey
Thank you. This wait for 1 tick solves the problem completely. Well, openField changes the focus sort of by definition. If you want a word auto-selected, you'll need to delay the selection until after openField is finished. Try this: on openField if target is not empty then send doSelect

Re: text selection question

2005-06-12 Thread Jon
Are all of these [reasonable] timing issues documented somewhere? I just had a similar problem ... er ... situation regarding On Startup vs On OpenStack :) Jon Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 1:16 PM -0400 6/11/2005, Bill Humphrey wrote: If the command select or focus on is run from and op

Re: text selection question

2005-06-11 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 1:16 PM -0400 6/11/2005, Bill Humphrey wrote: If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? I would not ha

Re: text selection question

2005-06-11 Thread Bill Humphrey
Robert Brenstein wrote: If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? Bill Humphrey wrote: Just what you

Re: text selection question

2005-06-11 Thread Robert Brenstein
If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? Bill Humphrey wrote: Just what you found out: you are selecti

Re: text selection question

2005-06-09 Thread Bill Humphrey
If the command select or focus on is run from and open fld or in the message box then the selection just flashes for a second. If it is run from a button on the card then it works as expected. version 2.6 - what am I doing wrong? Bill Humphrey wrote: How come when you do this: select word o

text selection question

2005-06-09 Thread Bill Humphrey
How come when you do this: select word one of fld "x_areacode1" The text just flashes for a second and doesn't remain selected? Is there some command: select word one of fld "foolish coder" and hold that selection *&[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ use-r

Re: Noncontiguous text selection

2005-01-24 Thread Ken Ray
On 1/24/05 9:04 PM, "Mark Swindell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to select (drag through, double click words, triple > click lines) noncontiguos text in a regular text field (not a list > field)? If so, how? No, not without a major kludge (like creating "fake" selections after mou

Noncontiguous text selection

2005-01-24 Thread Mark Swindell
Is it possible to select (drag through, double click words, triple click lines) noncontiguos text in a regular text field (not a list field)? If so, how? Thanks, Mark ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-16 Thread Erik Hansen
--- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I temporarily switched to show the transcript > property name ... why "temporarily"? Erik Hansen = [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.erikhansen.org __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo!

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-16 Thread Erik Hansen
--- Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tabbing between controls ...minimizes the > mouse-to-keyboard and > keyboard-to-mouse time, which can be > especially useful for apps that are > heavy in text input). also less repetitive use of muscles and joints. Erik Hansen = [EMAIL PR

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Mark Talluto
this regard. Steps have already been taking in this direction (see the "Turn on full keyboard access" option in the Keyboard & Mouse control panel in Panther). As far as traversalOn affecting text selection, this does prevent a good many useful application designs and should be flag

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
on (see the "Turn on full keyboard access" option in the Keyboard & Mouse control panel in Panther). As far as traversalOn affecting text selection, this does prevent a good many useful application designs and should be flagged as a bug. I thought it had been. Anyone have t

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Mark Talluto
"Turn on full keyboard access" option in the Keyboard & Mouse control panel in Panther). As far as traversalOn affecting text selection, this does prevent a good many useful application designs and should be flagged as a bug. I thought it had been. Anyone have the Bugzilla numbe

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
n in the Keyboard & Mouse control panel in Panther). As far as traversalOn affecting text selection, this does prevent a good many useful application designs and should be flagged as a bug. I thought it had been. Anyone have the Bugzilla number? The interim workaround is to trap mouseEnter

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
On Oct 12, 2004, at 1:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I came in late on this thread: what was the reason for turning off traversalOn? Maybe there's another way to handle that which won't cripple your Win version if you're making one. Leaving traversalOn on causes text in a field to be deselected w

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: The fourth control from the bottom of mine (depending on how you count) would seem to be "Menu Items"? I posted a screenshot of an example of my properties window (at http://www.fjrhome.net/basic-image.tiff) so that you can see what I get for a popup menu. I am using

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
The fourth control from the bottom of mine (depending on how you count) would seem to be "Menu Items"? I posted a screenshot of an example of my properties window (at http://www.fjrhome.net/basic-image.tiff) so that you can see what I get for a popup menu. I am using 2.5 under OS X. On Oct 12

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: I temporarily switched to show the transcript property name, and this still does not reveal a traversalOn for the popup menu. I see it in the Basic Properties panel, fourth control from the bottom. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation _

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I temporarily switched to show the transcript property name, and this still does not reveal a traversalOn for the popup menu. Apparently this is an omission from the property window of a menu button? On Oct 12, 2004, at 3:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Erik Hansen wrote: --- "Frank D. Engel, Jr."

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Erik Hansen wrote: --- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't see a "focus with keyboard" option for popups, but setting the traversalOn from a msgbox worked great! in Edit > Preferences you can choose between using actual Transcript terms like "traversalOn" and descriptive p

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Erik Hansen
--- "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't see a "focus with keyboard" option for > popups, but setting the > traversalOn from a msgbox worked great! in Edit > Preferences you can choose between using actual Transcript terms like "traversalOn" and descriptive phrases like "

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I don't see a "focus with keyboard" option for popups, but setting the traversalOn from a msgbox worked great! Thank you. On Oct 11, 2004, at 5:17 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: set the "traversalOn" of your popups to false. you can do so by clicking "focus with keyboard" on the inspector. On Oc

Re: Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
set the "traversalOn" of your popups to false. you can do so by clicking "focus with keyboard" on the inspector. On Oct 11 2004, at 23:13, Frank D. Engel, Jr. wrote: ... Is there any way to keep a popup menu from deselecting text in a field on the same card & stack as the popup menu itself? ...

Popup Menus with Text Selection?

2004-10-11 Thread Frank D. Engel, Jr.
I am trying to set up a dialog box/sheet to be used for editing rich text (htmlText property of a selected field). As part of the dialog, I am trying to include options to change the font, size, style, and color of selected portions of the text. The option to change the color uses a buttion wh

Re: Text selection

2002-04-25 Thread Greg Wills
Thanks Jan and Ken for your input to enable this to work. I now have a field that has words that have punctuation in them grouped/linked. The clickedtext changes to red (and plays the appropriate sound file in my stack) and reverts to black when the mouse exits the field. Such as; on mouseEn

Re: Text selection (was Re: use-revolution digest, Vol 1 #360 - 13 msgs)

2002-04-24 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- Greg Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have had a play with grouping (now link in 1.1.1). > I don't want the > text to end up with a line under the text (as is in > "set the > textstyle property to link"). So it does not really > solve my problem. > Try any of the following equivalen