> I have an unlocked, editable field with text. I
> select a portion of the text, then option click on it
> for a popup that has a few options
> to select from to do something to the text, like
> uppercase, lowercase, etc.
>
> This changing works with a button and an option menu
> combo, but not in a contextual button. Any activity on
> the field kills the selection.
>
> Attempting this always loses the selection, then
> there's nothing to change, and all attempts to save
> the selection range description to a global still don't
> seem to work.
>
> I'm sure there's a dance of locking and unlocking to
> get this to work, but I haven't found it yet... any
> ideas...?..
The following trick works on both Win and Mac: set the
traversalOn
of the popup menu button to
false
, and the
selectedChunk
will remain the same -- I used this sort
of construct in one project:
## field script
on mouseDown pButton
if pButton = 3 then popup button "FieldMenu"
end mouseDown
## popup button script
on menuPick pItem
switch pItem
case "cut"
cut
break
case "copy"
copy
break
case "paste"
if the clipboard is "text" then paste else beep
break
case "clear"
delete
break
end switch
end menuPick
## And this works remarkably well...
Posted on 2/21/05 by Jan Schenkel the Use Revolution list