[webkit-dev] disable selection of text and images

[Ryosuke Niwa]

The bug 38520 <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38520> addresses the
exact problem.

- Ryosuke

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Efan... <efanharris at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah might be Raving Jason would have had word with you, he is my colleague
> he told me on skype today to do the same, return false from that method,
>
> But that will permanently disable it I am just looking some way to enable
> disable this when ever developer want using some api at Qt level or
> somewhere else. May be would like to have implementation like
> shouldChangeSelectedDOMRange as in OSX.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think I talked with this person on IRC last night, and I suggested him
>> to modify EditorClientQt::shouldChangeSelectedRange to always return false.
>>  FYI, there is a bug to add this feature on Qt ports:
>> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38520
>>
>> - Ryosuke
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Dan Bernstein <mitz at apple.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Efan... wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi All unfortunately I can not use JAVA script or any thing like that
>>> cause my application is totally c++ , QT based.
>>> I need to make the change in webkit src code I guess.
>>>
>>>
>>> Note that this is already supported (with no source changes) on Mac OS X
>>> via the editing delegate method
>>> -webView:shouldChangeSelectedDOMRange:toDOMRange:affinity:stillSelecting:.
>>> Perhaps Qt WebKit is missing an equivalent to that delegate interface (a
>>> cursory look in EditorClientQt.cpp suggest that it is).
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Simon Fraser <simon.fraser at apple.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Put
>>>> * {
>>>>  -webkit-user-select: none;
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> in your user-agent stylesheet?
>>>>
>>>> Simon
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 18, 2010, at 10:12 PM, Efan... wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Hi
>>>> > I am totally new to this group.
>>>> >
>>>> > I want to disable selection of Text and graphics in my QWebView, it
>>>> seems that there is no way via Qt i can do this , so only option I am left
>>>> with is to modify webkit code.
>>>> > I am new to webkit code too, but I am willing to put my time and
>>>> effort to do this, Can any one please suggest what file/function should I be
>>>> modifying in webkit?? Or does any one has any other solution other than
>>>> modifying webkit?
>>>> >
>>>> > I will highly appreciate any input on this.
>>>>
>>>>
>
>
> --
> Efan Harris
>
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