Does lotusscript getselectedtext work on plain text fields?

Question

I'm trying to run the following on a normal text field in Notes, but it craps out. I'm wondering if maybe GetSelectedText won't work on plain text fields, though Help doesn't seem to indicate any such restrictions.

I want to get the text that the user selects in a field, and clear it. (Later on I'm going to replace it with the selected text that I've gone and done stuff to.)

Sub Click(Source As Button)

Dim wrksp As New NotesUIWorkspace
Dim uidoc As NotesUIDocument
Dim doc As notesdocument
Dim seltext As String
Dim test As String
Dim BeginTag As String
Dim EndTag As String
Dim session As New NotesSession
Dim flag As Variant
Dim fieldName As String
fieldName = "Text"

Set uidoc = wrksp.CurrentDocument
Set doc=uidoc.document
On Error Goto nowtselected

seltext = uidoc.GetSelectedText(fieldname)
Msgbox seltext [Note: seltext comes back blank)
Call Session.SetEnvironmentVar( "EnvSelectedText", seltext )
Msgbox "got here1 fine"

Call uidoc.Clear
[Note: craps out completely upon attempting the above operation]

Knut Herrmann Knut Herrmann · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-13T20:56:37

I guess you put your code into a button on form. This doesn't work. When you click the button this button gets the focus and your field looses focus and selection at the same time. So, your code doesn't find anything selected in field.

Create an action button (menu Create/Action/Action.../Button) instead. Actions have the advantage not to change focus and selection on form. Your code itself is fine. You only need to transfer it to an action.

Does lotusscript getselectedtext work on plain text fields?

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