I don't think you can disable the cut/paste menus. But you can
disable/cancel the functionality. I'd play around with the keydown and
change events of the UITextField. If the control key is down in the active
in the keydown event, save the current htmltext of the textfield and reset
the text to
OK, I'm curious. Why don't you want users to cut and paste? I'd be pretty
fed up if I was using an application that wouldn't let me paste into an
input field.
Paul
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Sent: Tuesday, September 16,
On Tuesday 16 Sep 2008, justincase772 wrote:
Hello everybody. As dumb as it might sound, I need to disable
cutpaste in a flex3 web application,
You're right, it sounds dumb - what's the use case ?
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Doesn't sound that dumb, what if it was copyright issues? I know they could
take screenshots but that is the first thing I thought of.
If you don't want people to right click in the text area, make a subclass
that puts a transparent modal sprite over the bounding box of the text field
minus what
The users of my app get nervous because it seems as if they can highlight
and delete the text from the screens. If they changeState and come back, the
text is back, but they don't know that the first time through.
I would love to disable this behavior without affecting the display of the
text
Set selectable = false ? or editable = false ? Or have I missed
something?
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Sent: 16 September 2008 15:30
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Preventing cutpaste
yeah,
didn't think of that, I was on the wrong wave.
My solution wouldn't be one for this.
Seems like you would have to do something like if a key stroke was
recordred, blah blah. Yeah this is complicated. ;-)
Mike
On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Andrew Wetmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
editable = false doesn't seem to do the trick. I will try selectable =
false.
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selectable = false seems to work, although the context menu still offers
Select all (although nothing happens that I can see).
This is curious behavior that only occurs on some of my text areas, where
you can seem to edit the text in a way that you aren't intended to be able
to.
a
On Tue, Sep
Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Preventing cutpaste in Flex3
application
selectable = false seems to work, although the context menu
still offers Select all (although nothing happens that I can see).
This is curious behavior that only occurs on some of my
Yes. I need to write about 15 context menus for various states in the app,
and use a generic menu elsewhere. On my to-do list.
a
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On Tuesday 16 Sep 2008, Michael Schmalle wrote:
Doesn't sound that dumb, what if it was copyright issues?
What if it was ?
/me points at defectivebydesign.org
This should effectively eat the mouse interaction of the underlying
The user can still tab to the control and then use the keyboard
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