How can I select text in a thtmlb:tableview in a pop-up?

Question

Hi,
We have a number of pop-up screens that contain thtmlb:tableview tags.  For some reason, it is not possible to select text (left-mouse click then drag cursor) in these pop-ups.  We are currently having to put any text that the user might want to select in disabled inputfields, but this looks rather ugly. 
Does anyone have a solution to this problem?  The selection of text within tableviews works fine if the view isn't displayed in a pop-up.
Many thanks,
Andrew

Answer 1

HI Andrew,
I have a littel problem in understanding the business use case.
Why should the user want to copy the text from the view.He will either select a row,by using the seletion tabs at the side of the view.
But why woudl he actually copy the text by left clicking and dragging the mouse over the text.Doesn't look like a valid use case.
What i have implemened once is where the table in the pop up contains multiple fields,and the user wants the description (ie one field) to be populated automatically into the field after selection of that row in the table view.Thsi can be eaqsily achived by making the table view select option as true and changing the html code also to fetch the selected index.
After this, the selected entity can be obtained from the collection wrapper,since it becomes the current entity:
me->typed_context->(context node name)->collection wrapper->get_current()
Now the desired field from this entity can be copied into the field of your choice in the parent view.Also once the user clicks the selection tab to select the enitty,popup_close method shoudl be called and pop up shoudl be closed immediately.
All this processing should happen in an even handler eh_onselect().