Our end user is wanting us to try to build something where they can drag text 
from the left side (in a TextArea) to TextInput boxes on the right hand side.

I've tried some different ways to try to accomplish this:

Making the TextArea draggable - This then prevents using the mouse to highlight 
the text because as soon as you start to select the text, you are now dragging 
the textarea.

Trying to get the selected text, but it gets deselected as soon as you 
"re-click" the selected text.

My latest solution (which I thought *might* be OK with the end user) is adding 
a mouse_up listener to the textarea, which then adds the selected text to a 
variable.  The user can then double click the TextInput box, and the previously 
selected text is added to the TextInput.text  This got an "ah, hmm" from our 
end user, so I'm trying to figure out something else, or this will be it :)

I'm trying to figure out how to keep the text selected "on re-click"...so 
highlight text with mouse, left click on selected text (text stays 
highlighted), and then I can use the DragManager and some finagling to get the 
text to the TextInputs hopefully.  Only problem is, as soon as I re-click, the 
selected text is deselected.  Any way to prevent this from happening (or any 
other solutions that someone might have are always welcome)?

Thanks.

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