How to make a text field "copyable" but not editable?

[bogs]

I thought of that myself Jacque (scary, isn't it? ) but, I also see two similar instances where it goes either way outside of Lc.

*IF* you have the Thunderbird mail client, for instance, and have an rss feed setup in it, and you click in the text of a feed, you get no cursor like what is proposed, and that is expected as Craig mentioned.

However, if you also have Firefox, and you come here to say, post a reply, and you click in the text of the topic review area below the reply field, you *do* see a cursor

confusing, isn't it?

So, in 2 different programs by the same group of dev's (more or less) you have 2 different behaviors where the cursor is concerned in a locked field.

*Edit - I should point out that FF also displays that cursor if you are just reading a thread, and click in the middle of any text on the page.

[kaveh1000]

My use case is that I want to be able to move around a field, highlight text using arrow keys and shift key etc, and pressing a key or button to set off an action, for instance:

• Copy text to another field
• Change the backgroundcolor of selection
• etc

But not be able to change the text.

[dunbarx]

Kaveh.

Cummon. Make this more fun.

In a locked field with some text:

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on mouseMove x,y
   if the mouseLoc is within the rect of me then select the mouseText
end mouseMove

on mouseUp
   set the clipboardData to the mouseText
end mouseUp

I can think of lots more additional gadgetry to make all your dreams come true.

Craig

[kaveh1000]

Thanks Craig. Just when I think I have seen all the magic that LiveCode can come up with you give me new ones.

I also need to be able to see cursor so that shift right selects next char.

Actually the first approach I tried was to use an unlocked text, but stop changes to it with a number of handlers, e.g.

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on deletekey
  exit deletekey
end deletekey

on backspacekey
  exit backspacekey
end backspacekey

Perhaps that is a better approach to take...

[dunbarx]

Well, you can:

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on mouseEnter
set the cursor to iBeam
lock cursor

But you will bump into the interface guidelines, as Jacque and I discussed above.

And you can select the actual character the mouse is hovering over with;

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  if the mouseLoc is within the rect of me then select char word 2 of the mouseCharchunk of me

If you only determine what char that is, whether selected or not, you can use that information to allow an arrowKey to select either of its neighbors.

Cummon. Have some fun

Craig