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SelectionManager blinking i-beam removal
I have an application that for all intents and purposes can
be considered similar to the Pagination example.
I do not want the end user to be able to edit the document however I need to do certain operations when the end user interacts with the text, such as perform some actionscript when they click a LinkElement, or create a hover box over certain ParagraphElements and DivElements on mouseover.
Therefore I have created a superclass to SelectionManager to handle the text events and the mouse events.
The side effect of this design is that when the end user hovers the mouse over any old text, the mouse pointer is almost always an i-beam insertion point, giving the impression that editing is available, even though they cannot in fact edit.
If I find an alternate way of doing the events and eliminate the SelectionManager altogether, then I dont get the handy ability for my users to select a section of text and copy it to the clipboard.
Surely there must be a way, when using a SelectionManager to have the cursor be the arrow when hovering over arbitrary text and a hand pointer when hovering over a LinkElement rather than the i-beam, however, I cannot figure out how to make this happen on my own.
If anybody out there can help me with this, I will surely owe you my gratitude.
Thanks,
Tim
Anyone?
I do not want the end user to be able to edit the document however I need to do certain operations when the end user interacts with the text, such as perform some actionscript when they click a LinkElement, or create a hover box over certain ParagraphElements and DivElements on mouseover.
Therefore I have created a superclass to SelectionManager to handle the text events and the mouse events.
The side effect of this design is that when the end user hovers the mouse over any old text, the mouse pointer is almost always an i-beam insertion point, giving the impression that editing is available, even though they cannot in fact edit.
If I find an alternate way of doing the events and eliminate the SelectionManager altogether, then I dont get the handy ability for my users to select a section of text and copy it to the clipboard.
Surely there must be a way, when using a SelectionManager to have the cursor be the arrow when hovering over arbitrary text and a hand pointer when hovering over a LinkElement rather than the i-beam, however, I cannot figure out how to make this happen on my own.
If anybody out there can help me with this, I will surely owe you my gratitude.
Thanks,
Tim
Anyone?
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