On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 08:10:44PM -0700, Jeff Hodges wrote: > I know Shoes writes directly to a canvas which makes this difficult, but is > there any way to hint that a textblock should be copy and pastable? Or, > perhaps more accurately, able to be selected by a mouse. I can't seem to > find anything in the docs and I assume this is one of the as-of-yet > unsolved issues in Shoes.
No, there is no copy-and-paste for textblocks. Sadly, it won't be a part of the next release either. I'm thinking of moving away from Pango so that I can use each operating system's native text to accomplish this. I think it's interesting that this feature comes up every few months even though many GUI toolkits have neither good text-flowing methods nor good copy-and-paste of such text. I don't think NodeBox or Processing and other drawing kits have it either. Maybe because people see Shoes as closer to AIR and the browsers? Anyway, I want this feature, too. _why
