Label Text Selection

[Andy Goryachev]

TextArea is probably the right approach given the requirements (selection, avoiding ellipses).  It needs one improvement though which is “use content height” https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8310593 RFE to get rid of the scroll bars.

One can also try implementing a custom component modeled after TextArea/Label since the underlying Text class supports selection.

A different solution might involve adding a context menu with “Copy Text to Clipboard”, but that might not work if the requirement is to be able to select portions of the text.

I doubt this qualifies as a standard component though, but that’s just my opinion.

-andy


From: openjfx-dev <openjfx-dev-retn at openjdk.org> on behalf of Tobias Oelgarte <tobias.oelgarte at gmail.com>
Date: Friday, August 16, 2024 at 08:18
To: openjfx-dev at openjdk.org <openjfx-dev at openjdk.org>
Subject: Re: Label Text Selection

I would also like to see this implemented, but as an additional "SelectableLabel" control, to avoid side effects (ellipsise, ...).

I also had to use the non editable TextField hack way to often.
On 16.08.24 12:29, Thiago Milczarek Sayão wrote:
Hi Dirk,

This would be great. It's a feature I miss.

On my scenario (we do a POS pharmacy software) users want to copy things such as product code/barcode, description, etc.

I think it's not a trivial task to develop this, since labels can wrap, ellipsise. They are inside tables and other components.

Some countries have user information protection laws, so it should not always be enabled.

-- Thiago



Em sex., 16 de ago. de 2024 07:13, Dirk Lemmermann <dlemmermann at gmail.com<mailto:dlemmermann at gmail.com>> escreveu:
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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