Thanks David, your solution works!
Rich Lague
On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 08:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Rich Layne wrote:
I trying to make an application that has most of it�s functionality on
a palette-- a bunch of different buttons that will do different stuff
to the main data stack. Most things work, but handlers that involve the
�selectedText� don�t seem to make it to the main stack, (which is the
topStack.)
My experience using Metacard 2.5 is that when you click on a palette the selection in the topStack is lost, so the selectedText is empty. I use these handlers in my palette's script as a way of recording and restoring the selection:
on mouseEnter
global chunkStore
get the selectedChunk
if it is empty then put empty into chunkStore else put it && "of" && word -2 to -1 of the long id of the selectedField into chunkStore
end mouseEnter
on mouseDown global chunkStore if chunkStore is not empty then do "select" && chunkStore end mouseDown
So on mouseUp, the selection is where you want it and references to it should work properly.
There is a slight flashing associated with the selection being lost and restored, so I'd be interested to hear other methods.
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