Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Label text selection

[Brandon M. <bnd...@ho...>]

Why not just disable selection events all together. It was done in the
dragEvent object way-back when.
Simply put:
    if (is.ie) // Prevents text selection when dragging.
        document.onselectstart = function () { return false; };
That stopped IE from selecting other text on the screen when a layer was
being dragged.
easy enough to redirect the selectstart of the target object to either
click, or simply return false.

I haven't had time to test this, but it seems like a way to solve the
selection problem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Andrew LePera" <sc...@sc...>
To: <dyn...@li...>
Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 6:37 PM
Subject: [Dynapi-Dev] Label text selection


> There's a small snag in Label.  In IE, when you use setSelectable to
> prevent text from being selected with the mouse, you're also cancelling
> the browser event.  This can also cancel events on the label itself.
> For example, if you build a list item out of a label with rollover color
> change events, sometimes the label text will cancel the onmouseout
> event.  If you mouseover the list fast enough you may end up with
> several items stuck in the rollover position.  This could cause problems
> with other widgets that use Label.
>
> In light of this, I'm wondering if we should restore the optional
> addCover() method that uses a physical layer to cover text.  If you
> don't need it, just use setSelectable.
>
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