The difference is, turning traversal off, rather than setting the locktext to true doesn't work. Even if one manages to hilite text in the non-traversable field, it isn't really selected. (Which is why if it were me I'd not do it that way)
On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2017, at 10:06 , Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> > >> That should not be needed. > >> > >> LiveCode allows only one active field selection in non-list fields. > > > > Yes I did. It returns empty. I have a menu which intercepts the > > Copy menu selection. I hilite the text in a field whose traversalOn > > is false, then select Copy from the menu. In the menu handler I have > > "put the selectedText". I also tried "hilitedText". Neither work. I > > also tried the hilitedText of field "fldIPAddress". No bueno. If > > however you SET the hilitedText from a handler, it DOES return > > something. So it's clear that the property CAN be set even if > > traversalOn is false. The engine is just not doing it. > > > > This has actually been the case since version 2 when I began using > > Revolution. > > Which Copy menu item, LC's or one of yours? > > In my last recipe I was using the copy command but you said you were > having issues with the selectedText, so I came up with this one: > http://fourthworldlabs.com/rev/LockedFieldText.livecode > > If has one menu and a simple script in it: > > on menuPick pItemName > put the selectedText > end menuPick > > So here everything I do with selections in locked fields gives me the same > results as unlocked fields. I've had products that rely heavily on this > behavior. If you're seeing something different we need to dig into > specifics to discover the differences. But once we do I'm confident we can > get it to work for you. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web > ____________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.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
