[Laszlo-user] text editing and insertion point position

[Daniel Pool]

For the application we are working on we have rich text fields that can 
either be editable, or clickable/draggable.

When a text field is non-editable the mouse can be used to drag the 
field by clicking and dragging the field.
When a text field is editable the field cannot be dragged but can have 
the insertion point and selection is set by clicking and dragging in the 
field.

The way to make an editable field non-editable is to click anywhere 
outside of the field.
Clicking on an unselected field selects it.
The way to make a field editable is to click on the field when it is 
already selected.

The problem is that when a selected, but non-editable field is clicked 
on the insertion point should be set based on the position of the click.

I can see two possible solutions but I don't know how to implement 
either of them. For selected but non-editable fields:
1...When the field gets a click set the editable property to true and 
then post the click event to the field again, or create an event to post 
to the field.
2...When the field gets the click from the x,y position of the click 
determine the offset into the text-string of the field and call 
setSelection based on the offset into the text-string.

I see a way to possibly implement the 2nd solution, but it is a really 
ugly hack.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how this should be done?

Thanks,
Daniel Pool.