the flashing I dont experience on windows. I use the mousedown message to avoid the flash but I pass the mousedown.
I also put in a lock screen just to make sure it's overkill. You never know ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 17:13 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: selectedText from a palette? > > > Rich Layne wrote: > > > I trying to make an application that has most of it’s functionality on > > a palette-- a bunch of different buttons that will do different stuff > > to the main data stack. Most things work, but handlers that involve the > > “selectedText” don’t seem to make it to the main stack, (which is the > > topStack.) > > My experience using Metacard 2.5 is that when you click on a palette > the selection in the topStack is lost, so the selectedText is empty. > I use these handlers in my palette's script as a way of recording and > restoring the selection: > > on mouseEnter > global chunkStore > get the selectedChunk > if it is empty then put empty into chunkStore else put it && "of" > && word -2 to -1 of the long id of the selectedField into chunkStore > end mouseEnter > > on mouseDown > global chunkStore > if chunkStore is not empty then do "select" && chunkStore > end mouseDown > > So on mouseUp, the selection is where you want it and references to > it should work properly. > > There is a slight flashing associated with the selection being lost > and restored, so I'd be interested to hear other methods. > > David Epstein > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
