OK, very close with this now. The final thing is that after I have dragged the value to the TextInputs, and dropped the value into them, the original TextArea still thinks the mouse is over it (so as you move the mouse around it looks like the mouse is still clicked in the TextArea and selects and deselects the text).
I've tried firing mouse_click and mouse_out events from the TextArea, or setting the begin and end indices to 0, but nothing seems to stop it from "thinking" the mouse is still clicked in the TextArea. --- In [email protected], "gareth_arch" <gareth_a...@...> wrote: > > 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. >
