[REBOL] Re: fields and keyboard
From: riusa:email:it at: 31-Jan-2002 11:23
Thanks a lot!
> Hi,
>
> > Hi, can someone explain me what is exactly ctx-text?
> > I tried using "? ctx-text" but Rebol shown me a lot of
> > code!
>
> Short answer 1: It is a lot of code! :)
>
> Short answer 2: It holds a lot of the functions that FIELD, AREA,
TEXT, H1,
> H2, etc. need.
>
> Longer answer:
>
> You can build VID programs without knowing about it.
>
> ctx-text is an object! which holds some words, some objects and a lot
of
> functions.
> All these things are grouped in the object ctx-text because they
relate to
> text handling.
> For example, these functions and objects work together to give the
ability
> to copy text from a View window to the clipboard. Like this:
>
> view layout [text {Highlight this text with
> you mouse and copy it to the clipboard
> using ctrl-c.}]
>
> If I deliberately "cut the link" to ctx-text - see what happens:
>
> view layout [text "Try to copy this text now." with [feel: none]]
>
> Normally this prints true:
>
> layout [text-object: text "Some text"]
> print same? text-object/feel ctx-text/swipe
>
> So the summary is VID styles use ctx-text to handle keystrokes, and
other
> text handling.
>
> Brett.
>
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