Cut, Copy, Paste String Objects

[djrikki]

Wondering...

1) How I am meant to get the contents of Marked Text in a String gadget to a) Cut them from the string or b) Copy them.

2) Paste into a String gadget at the current insertion point.

[airsoftsoftwair]

AFAICS MUI doesn't provide this functionality so you'd have to ask the MUI developers to implement this first.

[djrikki]

Well that's kinda odd because it means CCP through RMB Context Menus is not possible.

[airsoftsoftwair]

I think MUI offers this functionality for string gadget by default, but you cannot customize it (AFAIR).

[bitRocky]

Hi,

under MorphOS the String.mui is really a Textinput object, so you can use all the Textinput methods and attributes!
So you could use the MUIM_Textinput_DoCopy or _DoPaste methods for copying/pasting to/from clipboard.
Also MUIM_Textinput_InsertText could interest you.
And MUIA_Textinput_MarkStart/End would be the attrs you want to get, for copying the marked part into a local string.

[airsoftsoftwair]

Right, this should be the same on OS4 with MUI4 so I think I can implement this in MUI Royale for MUI 4 and up. Thanks for the pointer!