[webkit-dev] disable selection of text and images

Efan... efanharris at gmail.com
Tue Oct 19 22:58:36 PDT 2010


By the way could there be any way like -webkit-user-select = none, where I
can select the element Withought highlighting??

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Ryosuke Niwa <rniwa at webkit.org> wrote:

> 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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Efan Harris
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