Re: [elm-discuss] textarea selection

[OvermindDL1]

That sounds horrifyingly wonderfully hacky.  ^.^

Good idea to keep in mind for the future, though I think keeping with my 
port right now is good.  I have a growing PortHelper module that I am 
stuffing all my port helpers into with a single javascript file that I can 
call a function in passing an Elm app to setup.  It works well and is 
re-usable.  :-)

On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 3:05:22 AM UTC-6, debois wrote:
>
> This is something of a hack and likely not preferable to your current 
> solution using a port, but if you're desperate to avoid ports (say, you are 
> building a package), here's an option:
>
> Write a Json decoder for the Buttons onClick event which "walks the DOM" 
> by decoding `offsetParent` etc.; find the textfield, decode 
> `selectionStart` and `selectionEnd` on it.
>
> More details in this post:
>
> https://medium.com/@debois/elm-the-dom-8c9883190d20#.kyhqu07pi
>
> You might find this library helpful:
>
> https://github.com/debois/elm-dom
>
> If you take this route, consider submitting a PR for the library with 
> decoders for selection properties.
>
> I believe proper support for accessing selection will come to core 
> eventually, but not in the short term:
>
>
> https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Frtfeldman%2F5f015adbdfbba541c7e7e1409b6efeef=D=1=AFQjCNHad6MkGVczjUkktrV_ACgfhvIr-g
>
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Re: [elm-discuss] textarea selection

[OvermindDL1]

Correction, does not seem to work, I cannot find a way to access the 
textarea element from the button callback...

On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 8:37:05 AM UTC-6, OvermindDL1 wrote:
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> I already use custom 'on' things to override default propagation (more 
> interaction with the legacy javascript that I am stopping in this case), 
> but you just gave me a fantastic idea...  I might be able to get rid of my 
> `surroundSelectionWith` javascript port...
>
> On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 12:56:24 AM UTC-6, Atamert Ölçgen wrote:
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>> Have you tried this:
>>
>> http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/html/1.1.0/Html-Events#on
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:02 PM, OvermindDL1  wrote:
>>
>>> When a user clicks a button I am needing to take the text that is 
>>> currently *selected* in a textarea and surround it with other text while 
>>> retaining what is selected.  What is the method to do this in Elm.  Is 
>>> there an onSelectionChanged callback or something that I am missing?
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Re: [elm-discuss] textarea selection

[OvermindDL1]

I already use custom 'on' things to override default propagation (more 
interaction with the legacy javascript that I am stopping in this case), 
but you just gave me a fantastic idea...  I might be able to get rid of my 
`surroundSelectionWith` javascript port...

On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 12:56:24 AM UTC-6, Atamert Ölçgen wrote:
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> Have you tried this:
>
> http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/html/1.1.0/Html-Events#on
>
> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:02 PM, OvermindDL1  > wrote:
>
>> When a user clicks a button I am needing to take the text that is 
>> currently *selected* in a textarea and surround it with other text while 
>> retaining what is selected.  What is the method to do this in Elm.  Is 
>> there an onSelectionChanged callback or something that I am missing?
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Re: [elm-discuss] textarea selection

[Atamert Ölçgen]

Have you tried this:

http://package.elm-lang.org/packages/elm-lang/html/1.1.0/Html-Events#on

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 11:02 PM, OvermindDL1  wrote:

> When a user clicks a button I am needing to take the text that is
> currently *selected* in a textarea and surround it with other text while
> retaining what is selected.  What is the method to do this in Elm.  Is
> there an onSelectionChanged callback or something that I am missing?
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