Re: How to make an InputField inside of a graphic active...
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- Subject: [mg89623] Re: How to make an InputField inside of a graphic active...
- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:13:52 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jun 14, 5:30 am, Albert Retey <a... at arcor.net> wrote: > David Reiss wrote: > > One can place, say, a Checkbox in a graphic using Inset: > > > Deploy[Graphics[{LightGray, Disk[], Inset[Checkbox[]]}]] > > > and the resulting Checkbox is active: i.e., you can click on it and > > the expected behavior happens. > > > Now if I try to do this with an InputField as in > > > Deploy[Graphics[{LightGray, Disk[], Inset[InputField[]]}]] > > > The resulting Inputfield cannot be accessed in the familiar way: i.e., > > clicking inside of it and then typing. > > > Do the Group members have a suggestion for how to do this sort of > > thing with an InputField. > > > This, of course, is a distilled version of something else. I am > > building a CAD application for a customer, and I would like to place > > input fields within the visual design that is being created so that > > values can be assigned to various things. This behavior would be > > toggeled on and off as needed... > > > thanks for any help that you folks can give.... > > I think the problem is with Deploy, which AFAIK sets ContentSelectable > to False for Graphics. The following sets it to true for only the Inset > around the Inputfield which kind of works. I don't know whether that is > good enough for your customer, since you need to at least double klick > to select the text to edit, but not always, so it doesn't give a very > reliable impression, although I think the behavior is deterministic, > just not easy to follow... > > text="hello"; > > Deploy@Graphics[{ > LightGray,Disk[], > Black,Inset[InputField[Dynamic[text],String,Enabled->True],\ > ContentSelectable->True]} > > ] > > Dynamic[text] > > hth, > > albert Thank you. This was very helpful. Best, David