LC does not retain the hilite of any selected text in a field once you click on another control and does not restore it when you click back into the field again. I'm hoping to find a generalised solution to this.
In other applications, it seems that the standard way of working is: - change the hilite of any selected text in a field to a light grey color when another control is clicked - change the hilite back to the blue hilite color if the user tabs back into the field - clear the hilite completely if the user clicks back into the field That's the behavior I'm aiming for. So far, I have: - a mouseLeave handler that sets a custom property of the field to its selectedChunk and changes the backgroundcolor of the selectedchunk to gray - a mouseEnter handler that uses the custom property to set the backgroundcolor of the selected text back to blue again. So far so good. What remains is to handle what happens when the user arrives back into the field either by tabbing into it or by clicking into it. So far I have tried to use an openField handler to achieve this. Right now, I'm just trying to deal with the situation where the user clicks back into the field, by setting the background color of the field to either empty or white, but neither method removes the highlight from the selected text and if I type more text into the field, it appears with the hilite background color. Even if I delete all the text in the field and type new text in, it still appears with the blue background color. The other issue is how to distinguish between the user clicking into the field and tabbing into it. I'm pretty sure this must have come up before so hoping for some guidance from anyone who has come up with the solution. 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
