How do I enable text selection, copying, and pasting in a Shoes app?

Question

Hi Shoesers,

Is there any way to allow text selection, copying and pasting in a Shoes app? I'm making a little utility, and it would be great if it could support this functionality. I know shoes uses Pango/Cairo for text rendering, so I imagine there's a way to turn this on. Anyone? _why?

Also, _why, thanks for the great toolkit!

Much appreciated,

Bobby

Answer 1

Text selection, copy and paste works in edit_boxes, but it is not possible to select text blocks (such as para). Reading through the gmane archive of the old mailing list, _why had this down for the release after Policeman. There are also mentions of Pango being the reason text selection of para was not possible.