Question: textcolor when text is selected It is possible to set the textcolor when the text is hilited? I could not find a way doing this.
Roland On 29 January 2016 at 10:21, Roland Huettmann <roland.huettm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Paul, yes, autohilite does it. ) But nevertheless, to perform some action, > I need a trigger while tabbing. > > I am using LC 7.1, Windows 8.1 > > The actual question was another one: > > The text is highlighted - yes - in both cases. > > But the single-line field rectangle is not, just the text itself. > > I would like to have the visual effect showing a fully highlighted field > (not the text itself) where the text is visible and selected - and ideally > the color showing is set apart more than just 1 pixel from the border of > the field boundaries. > > This simply looks better than a chunk of text being selected. > > This can somehow be done tabbing into the field and then setting the > backgroundcolor of field. > > But setting the backgroundcolor to the hilitecolor will make the text > chunk disappear. > > Example: > > // The text chunk only appears when tabbing out or deselecting it. Setting > the hilitecolor to empty does not make a difference. // > > on tabkey > set the hilitecolor of field "Test1" to blue > set the backgroundcolor of field "Test1" to the hilitecolor of field > "Test1" > select the text of field "Test1" // The text DISAPPEARS > end tabkey > > One way of achieving the desired effect is with a trick: > > Set the actual field to be transparent. Put a graphic or another control > (field..) behind. Selecting the text of the transparent field will change > the color of the control behind it and the visual effect will be as desired > if the hilitecolor is set to the same color as the backgroundcolor in the > control behind. > > But of course - this is not something I would like to do for all my > fields. ) > > Roland > > > > > > > > On 28 January 2016 at 22:26, Paul Hibbert <p...@livecode.org> wrote: > >> On Jan 28, 2016, at 4:07 AM, Roland Huettmann <roland.huettm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > Maybe I am missing something, but I need to script this with "on >> > tabkey"-event handlers, "on textchanged" handlers, " on deletekey" >> handlers >> > and go with "select the text of..." or "select line 1 of...". Otherwise >> the >> > cursor is always placed behind the text - and I do not want that except >> for >> > multi-line fields. Could there not be a built-in attribute how selection >> > should occur? >> >> Check the autoTab property in the inspector, or if you want to set it by >> script… >> >> set the autoTab of field “myField" to true >> >> I’m not seeing any issue with text changing colour when selected, but you >> didn’t say which version of Livecode or which platform you are seeing this >> on, this info may help track down the problem. >> >> Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
