Ability to select text and apply interactions to it

#1

Hello

Does anyone know if it is possible to simulate the selection of a block of text and mouse right click to then trigger a menu with actions?

Thanks

#2

You can certainly do a right click menu. See the available actions list, on which you can show a panel or something for the menu after moving it the position of the mouse cursor. I don’t think you can reliably simulate the selection of text unless you fake it though.

#3

Hi Alf,
To select the text in an input field, create an interaction with the Focus action, and hit the checkbox to ‘Select text in text field or text area’.

I included a screenshot showing an example. You can extend this by also showing a popup dynamic panel which acts as a popup menu if you like.

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-Bill

#4

Yes, this would work. Note too that you can turn off the borders on the input field to make it look like plain text. A click would of course select the entire text, so not a marquee selection interaction, but for the purposes of a prototype it might be enough.