>>>> Is there anyway to prevent the text field portion of a combobox button
>>>> from automatically hiliting when its parent stack becomes active?
>>>
>>> FYI, the reason I asked this question in the first place is because I'd
>>> like to use a combobox control to apply changes to the text in another
>>> field, but because the the text of the combobox automatically hilites
>>> it's own text, I lose the text selection in the original field.
>>
>>You can't have two selections in the same window.
>
>
>THAT'S JUST IT -- THE SELECTIONS ARE NOT IN THE SAME WINDOW.
>
>This is what's so irritating. Some text is selected in a topLevel stack.
> I click on a palette stack containing the comboxbox, and the text of the
>combobox becomes selected, while the original text becomes UNselected.
>
>Excuse me while I surgically remove some more hair from my scalp.
>
>
>
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>Scott Rossi Tactile Media - Multimedia & Design
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Here's a script of a combobox that sets the textColor of a selected text in
a field:
local selChunk
on mouseEnter
put the selectedChunk of fld 1 into selChunk
end mouseEnter
on menuPick x
set the textColor of selChunk to x
end menuPick
It should work in a palette also.
Regards, Andu
