Can any one tell me how to make the WebTextArea allow copy with the mouse. You can do it with the arrow keys but not the mouse by dragging. I have an app that the users seem only to know how to hi-light and copy is by placing the cursor at the start point and click and drag across the text they want.
This works for normal text fields. This problem has existed since web projects were possible.
[quote=416288:@Richard Albrecht]Can any one tell me how to make the WebTextArea allow copy with the mouse. You can do it with the arrow keys but not the mouse by dragging. I have an app that the users seem only to know how to hi-light and copy is by placing the cursor at the start point and click and drag across the text they want.
This works for normal text fields. This problem has existed since web projects were possible.
Thanks[/quote]
I’m having trouble reproducing this with a textarea dragged directly from the library
I was able to select the text with the mouse (hi-light), macOS 10.12.6, Safari, Chrome and Firefox.
What I can’t do is right click the mouse to get the option there to Copy/Paste as I normally do on other webpages. But I can Copy/Paste using the app menu or the shortcut.
After working with desktop apps and get the built-in contextual menu if I don’t use ConstructContextualMenu to build my own, I expected something like that on web too.
There is no clipboard on web, I guess I can’t create a contextual menu like the built-in one with Copy/Paste right?
It is surprising for me :)[/quote]
If you are interested in changing this, you may want to vote on <https://xojo.com/issue/23071>
In <https://xojo.com/issue/13742> the possibility to access to the client’s clipboard is tracked, although this is seems to be unlikely to happen soon, given the current browser’s support.
DOM stands for Document Object Model, or the objects on the webpage. If you have something overlapping the text area, even if it is not visible, it may be intercepting the text selection for the visible text area underneath it.
You need to determine if the text area you’re trying to select text from is underneath something.
OK you may have hit on something. The app has approximately 12 containers all on one window. I make them visible when the one is need. I though that was the best way to go as apposed to 12 separate windows.