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From: andyi@mmm.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Getting part of a field
Message-ID: <1482@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 09:04:45 EST
Article-I.D.: mmm.1482
Posted: Fri Oct 30 09:04:45 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 1-Nov-87 09:27:24 EST
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Reply-To: andyi@mmm.UUCP (Andy Ihlenfeldt)
Organization: Software & Electronics Resource Center/3M
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I too couldn't seem to get the drag to work within fields.  Outside it's fine, 
but inside no dice.  (Anybody have some RAID?)  What did work for me to 
select text in a field is by clicking at one end of the chosen text and 
shift-clicking at the other end.  Hmmm. That's "click at <location>" followed
by "click at <location2> with shift".  

This worked but there are other horrors doing this as well.  With text 
selected this way, the user has the ability to change the text in the field 
even if it's locked. Just try typing on the keyboard.

Hope it helps.

Andy Ihlenfeldt                                   uucp: ihnp4!mmm!andyi
3M, St. Paul, MN                                  phone: (612) 736-7143