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From: edmoy@violet.berkeley.edu
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Subject: Re: Select line from a field when textLocked
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Date: 18 Feb 88 19:03:06 GMT
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In article <993@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu.UUCP (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
>I would like to be able to select an entire line from a text field
>by clicking on the line with the browse tool.  I figured out
>how to select any word (sending two clicks at the mouseloc when
>click occurs), but have had trouble selecting an entire line.
>Using the rect coordinates and dragging the mouse doesn't seem
>to work for some strange reason.  Can anyone help?

I remember having problem a similar problem with dragging the mouse over a
line of text, trying to select it.  I could get it to work either.  Fortunately,
there is another way.  Let x1 be the left side of the line, x2 the right side,
and y the vertical position of some spot in the line.  Then use:

	click at x1,y
	click at x2,y with shiftKey

This is the old extend-selection-with-shift-key trick.

One other note.  If you got x2 from the rect of the field, then you need
the subtract a pixel of two from it to make sure the coordinate is really
within the boundaries of the field.

Edward Moy
Workstation Software Support Group
University of California
Berkeley, CA  94720

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