Philip TAYLOR wrote:
Although this is (as far as I can tell) not Seamonkey-specific, it is certainly demonstrable in Seamonkey and I am at a complete loss to understand what is happening. Wishing to capture and report which text is highlit, I capture it during an onmouseover and then seek to report it during an onclick. The data are saved in a global object. Onmouseover reports that it has been successfully saved, there is no further report that it has been destroyed, yet onclick finds nothing there. Is anyone able to explain what destroys the saved data, and (even better) tell me how to avoid this catastrophic data loss ?
I'd guess that the return value of window.getSelection(), which is a Selection object, always refers to the current selection. Once you click anything on the page (actually once you press the mouse button, not when you release it), the current selection is set to nothing.
To fix the issue, store the selection string in the "global" variable instead of the Selection object.
HTH Jens -- Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/> SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/> _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
