Label Text Selection

[Daniel Peintner]

Hi Dirk, all,

Personally I think this would be a great addition since I am getting the
same request over and over again.
I solved it by *mis-using* a TextField and making it look like a Label.

Thanks all for your efforts,

-- Daniel


On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 12:13 PM Dirk Lemmermann <dlemmermann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I recently added a custom text control (called “TextView") to the GemsFX
> project. It supports a somewhat limited text selection. Selection is only
> possible on a per-word basis. I received a bit of feedback on this control
> and I was wondering whether it would be worth thinking about adding a
> general text selection capability to labels. Is this something worth
> looking into? Is it even feasible?
>
> I guess one of the reasons why this topic keeps popping up is the fact
> that users are so used to selecting any text in web pages, but they can’t
> do it in desktop apps.
>
> Dirk
>
>
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