TO answer your first question. YES it's an OS X thing! It's "free" when using Cocoa text fields. When LiveCode finally ports to Cocoa the "standard" context menu would at least be an option. I can't see that it is possible to hook into that today. So you have to roll your own... The built in spell checker in OS X has the advantages of being true multilingual. (i.e. every language that OS X supports also have the spellchecker. (But the "look up word" is not!)
:-Håkan 1 okt 2012 kl. 19:34 skrev Timothy Miller: > I'm not writing to complain about an absent feature. Mostly just curious, and > maybe I'll learn something useful. > > In recent years, I've come to take it for granted that I can hilite a word > and command-click on it to get a pop-up dialog box with items like "cut" > "copy" "look up in dictionary" and so on. The specific items depend on the > application, but the dialog box usually looks the same. > > A few minutes ago, I tried this in a text field an a LC stack and thought, > "Hey, why doesn't that work!?" Then I remembered that LC doesn't do that, as > far as I know. Yet I have the impression that this is an OS function that any > application could invoke. > > So, my question: Is this an OS function? If so, why doesn't LC take advantage > of it? > > I suppose it could be scripted. Is there an LC add-on that conveniently adds > this functionality? Or maybe there's a simple LC command I don't know about? > > Cheers, > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > 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
