I'm not able to repeat what you describe with the current trunk release in Firefox or Safari on OS X. So I suspect this is a browser-specific issue.
If you have a repeatable test case, please report in Jira, specifying the Browser with version, platform, and the version of Open Laszlo. On 2011-02-24, at 21:19, Laszlo Developer wrote: > I can only select text using a mouse when I click in a white space > area behind the text, and then drag the mouse up or down. > > An example: Click in the line below the message "Right click for a > menu of common operations. Right click on any view in your > application to inspect it.", hold the mouse and move up. Text is > selected. > > Now try to select only the words " for a menu of common operations.". > That doesn't work me. Same is true when I dump the canvas object, > inspect it by clicking on it, and then try select only a part of the > text spit out for the canvas object. > > To select this text, I clicked behind the last char of the line > "«<canvas>#0| #canvas»", and dragged the mouse up. The text selection > seems to be broken, in most cases I could only select the text up to > the closing curly brace "}". But clicking before "totalnodes", and > then dragging down I cannot select any text. > totalnodes: 7 > updatePercentCreatedEnabled: false > viewLevel: 0 > width:size 1497 > } > «<canvas>#0| #canvas» > > In SWF10, I don't have any of these problems. > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:02 AM, P T Withington <[email protected]> wrote: >> You should be able to select the text and then use the Browser menu commands >> to copy the text. Sometimes the shortcut keys do not work for copy/paste >> because they are intercepted by the Laszlo program. >> >> On 2011-02-24, at 20:38, Laszlo Developer wrote: >> >>> I tried to copy text from the debugger in the DHTML runtime, and in >>> 90% of the cases that didn't work. Tested on OS X, with Chrome >>> 9.0.597.102 and Safari Version 5.0.3 (6533.19.4). Didn't see that >>> problem for the SWF10 runtime. >>> >>> L. >> >>
