You could set a customprop of the field control on mouseleave: on mouseleave set the uSelChunk of me to the selectedchunk end mouseleave
then in your dragdrop handler: put the uSelChunk of fld "targetField" into selCh put word 2 of selCh into startChar put word 4 of selCh into endChar put the clipboardData["text"] into char startChar to endChar of fld "targetField" -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Sep 26, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Pete wrote: > I'm trying to find a way to drag and drop text from a datagrid into a field > control. If no text is selected in the field control, the text should be > inserted at the insertion point; if text is selected, the dragged text > should replace the selected text. > > The way I'm doing this is: > > - The dragStart handler for the datagrid places the text I want to insert > into the clipboardData["text"] > - The dragEnter handler for the field control sets the focus on the field > control > - The dragDrop handler for the field control issues a paste command > > That all works fine when no text is selected in the field control, LC > appears to remember where the insertion is in the field control. However, > let's say I select some text in the field control. As soon as I click on a > line in the datagrid to start the drag/drop operation, the text is no longer > selected in the field control and when I drop the text into the field > control it is inserted at what was the end point of the text I had > originally selected. > > To illustrate, if the field control contains "This is my Text" and I select > the word "my", then drag the text "your" to the field Control, it will be > inserted right after "my" instead of replacing it. > > Am I setting about this the wrong way or can this approach be made to work > somehow? > > Thanks, > > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
