EditSelection

[Reto Huber]

Is there in SIMPOL a command for Superbase.EditSelection = 0?

[Michael]

On 16/04/2012 19:37, Reto Huber wrote:
> Is there in SIMPOL a command for Superbase.EditSelection = 0?
>

Off-hand, I can't think of one. This is the default Windows behavior as I recall, and that is how the controls work.

Ciao, Neil

[JD Kromkowski]

In theory, you create a function as part of Ongotfocus.

But, I'm not sure 0, is totally the default.

If you enter a field, EditSelection = 0 is what it looks like.
But if you then tab through fields, EditSelection = -1 is what it looks
like.

But that brings up a related question.

Copy, Cut, Paste

Right now even in "Personal" you don't have functions attached to these
menu items. Although, I've been a right-mouse man for the decades of
the windows experience; being able to hook this up I think is kind of
essential to be taken seriously.

What exactly are the equivalents of COPY FROM and COPY TO or

EditCopy()
EditCut()
EditPaste()

It seems like it should be something like

|wxclipboardputdata| (/|/||/|//|/||/|/Var.control.gettext()) for the
copy function

Maybe for paste?

string clipboard|
wxclipboardgetdata| (clipboard)
Var.control.settext(clipboard)

But how do you tell where the focus is from the menu?

||Since it hasn't been implemented in Personal, it obviously more
complicated.
api dll calls?

On 5/8/2012 6:02 PM, Neil Robinson wrote:
> On 16/04/2012 19:37, Reto Huber wrote:
>> Is there in SIMPOL a command for Superbase.EditSelection = 0?
>>
> Off-hand, I can't think of one. This is the default Windows behavior as I recall, and that is how the controls work.
>
> Ciao, Neil

[Michael]

On 09/05/2012 17:51, John D Kromkowski wrote:
> In theory, you create a function as part of Ongotfocus.
>
> But, I'm not sure 0, is totally the default.
>
> If you enter a field, EditSelection = 0 is what it looks like. But if you then tab through fields, EditSelection = -1 is what
> it looks like.
>
> But that brings up a related question.
>
> Copy, Cut, Paste
>
> Right now even in "Personal" you don't have functions attached to these menu items. Although, I've been a right-mouse man
> for the decades of the windows experience; being able to hook this up I think is kind of essential to be taken seriously.

Actually, the standard Windows defaults work in the fields Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V; this is built into the Windows controls. The
reason the menu items aren't working is because in Superbase they actually have a different function. They copy an entire record
to the clipboard, and paste an entire record. I simply haven't gotten around to writing this code yet, but probably in the next
release.

> What exactly are the equivalents of COPY FROM and COPY TO or
>
> EditCopy() EditCut() EditPaste()
>
>
> It seems like it should be something like
>
> |wxclipboardputdata| (/|/||/|//|/||/|/Var.control.gettext()) for the copy function
>
> Maybe for paste?
>
> string clipboard| wxclipboardgetdata| (clipboard) Var.control.settext(clipboard)
>
> But how do you tell where the focus is from the menu?

Exactly right, and in fact that is why I haven't bothered yet. I suspect I would check the form.focuscontrol to see which control
has focus, and if it is an edit control then I would do the action on what is selected in the control using .getselection().

> ||Since it hasn't been implemented in Personal, it obviously more complicated. api dll calls?

No more an issue of priority.

Ciao, Neil

[JD Kromkowski]

if the standard windows keys work, i.e.

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V

Wouldn't be the simpliest to simple hook up the menus to a function that uses sendkeys() for which there is already a library?

JDK

[Michael]

On 18/05/2012 16:21, John D Kromkowski wrote:
> if the standard windows keys work, i.e.
>
> Ctrl+C, Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V
>
> Wouldn't be the simpliest to simple hook up the menus to a function that uses sendkeys() for which there is already a library?

The problem isn't in trapping the key presses, I just haven't written the code yet that copies records and pastes them.

Also, I avoid using sendkeys for mainstream code where possible, since it is a Windows-only solution.

Ciao, Neil

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