Selecting text for highlighting

Why am I able in some documents to use a bar cursor that allows me to block text, while in other documents all I get is a x-pointer that does not allow me to block text for highlighting?

Block? You can only select and highlight documents that actually contain text; you cannot do that with scanned documents (images), unless they are OCRed.

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Adobe Acrobat. Change "Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out, ..." also for highlights made before changing the setting

I am looking for a solution to apply the "Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out, and Underline comment pop-ups" setting to highlights that I made before I changed this setting.
Someone wrote a batch for this which costs 60 dollar and this seems to do what I am looking for: Custom-made Adobe Scripts: Acrobat -- Retroactively Copy Highlighted Text into Comments
Where can I find Adobe's solution for this problem? I do not want to buy external batches for a professional software suit.
I expect that this is a common problem for people who start to organize a large literature base with many pdfs and must keep track of highlighted text. I was not previously aware of the "Copy selected..."setting, but I need to change it now for all my pdf files to make them compatible with a reference manager that I want to use. New comments are now compatible, but the hundreds(!) of pdfs that I worked through before are not, so copy pasting the highlighted text into comments is not an option.

Hi gb145,
You are posting on acrobat.com online service forums.
Kindly post this query in Acrobat forums:Acrobat
Regards,
Florence

How to programatically select text for editing in an af:inputText control?

Hello, I am new to jdeveloper 11.1.1.3.0 and have searched and searched for info. I must be using the wrong terms as I cannot find any info or example on how to programatically select text for editing in an inputText field.
My request is to change an existing app so when the user presses a button, control should go to the inputText control (this part works, see existing backing bean code from another developer below) but automatically select the text within for editing by the user (saving the user from having to select the text first before editing).
Backing bean code to set the focus to an inputText field:
* sets the cursor to the given component id
* @param componentId of item on page
public void setFocusOnUIComponent(String componentId) {
    FacesContext facesContext = FacesContext.getCurrentInstance();
    ExtendedRenderKitService service =
      Service.getRenderKitService(facesContext, ExtendedRenderKitService.class);
    UIComponent uiComponent = facesContext.getViewRoot().findComponent(componentId);
    service.addScript(facesContext,
      "Component = AdfPage.PAGE.findComponentByAbsoluteId('" + componentId + "'); Component.focus();");
} I hope this isn't a dumb question and would appreciate it if someone can steer me in the right direction.
Thank you for any info,
Gary

Hi,
not a dumb question at all. Before answering it, here some comments on the code you pasted in your question
1. UIComponent uiComponent = facesContext.getViewRoot().findComponent(componentId);
This code line is not used at all in your method. So it seems you can get rid of it
2. "Component = AdfPage.PAGE.findComponentByAbsoluteId('" + componentId + "'); Component.focus();");
I suggest to change it to
"var component = AdfPage.PAGE.findComponentByAbsoluteId('" + componentId + "'); component.focus();");
as it is better coding practice to have variable names starting with a lower case letter and being flagged with the "var" identifier
For pre-selecting text in an an input component, there is no API available in ADF Faces, which means you need to reach out to the rendered HTML ouput. To access the markup for the rendered component, you can try
var markup = AdfRichUIPeer.getDomContentElementForComponent(component)
If this markup returns the HTML input component then you can use JavaScript you find on the Internet to select the area of it. If it does not return the input component then you may have to use
document.getElementById(componentId+'::content')
Note however that working directly with generated HTML output bears the risk that your code breaks when - for whatever reason - the ADF Faces component rendering changes in the future
Frank
Frank

What happen to the ability to select text for speech?

What happen to the ability to highlight text and have the imac read the selected text out load back to you?

I am having this problem too, on mountain lion.
For example, before in Preview, you could select text to be read in text-to-speech. Now, this feature seemed to have just vanished! What happened?

How to change the stsndard selection text for a LDB..

Hi All,
    I am using a LDB selection screen. I want to change the selection text of the standard selecetion field.
For ex, for LDB- PNP, i want to change the 'Personnel number' text to 'Employee ID'...
Please let me know how to do this.
Regards
Nanda

Hi Nanda,
Here is the code which is exactly suitable for this req.
TABLES: pernr.
data: i_tab type standard table of RSSELTEXTS with header line.
initialization.
i_tab-name = 'PNPPERNR'.
i_tab-kind = 'S'.
i_tab-text = 'Employee ID'.
append i_tab.
CALL FUNCTION 'SELECTION_TEXTS_MODIFY'
EXPORTING
    program                           = 'ZESO_TEST'
tables
    seltexts                          = i_tab
EXCEPTIONS
PROGRAM_NOT_FOUND                 = 1
PROGRAM_CANNOT_BE_GENERATED       = 2
OTHERS                            = 3
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
MESSAGE ID SY-MSGID TYPE SY-MSGTY NUMBER SY-MSGNO
        WITH SY-MSGV1 SY-MSGV2 SY-MSGV3 SY-MSGV4.
ENDIF.
Thanks
Eswar

Problem regarding Selection Text for a Variable declared in ABAP

Hello Experts,
I am new to ABAP development. I have declared a variable in ABAP..Then i went to GOTO>Text Elements> Selection texts.
Then when i am selecting a date to have dictionary ref, then the text part is changed to "Date in Format YYYYMMSS in 8 C", then i can't customised it any more. But i want to display the text as "START DATE"..but while running. it's displaying "DATE" only.... How i can get rid of this situation?
Another problem : the limitations for th text in selection text is upto 33 charcaters by default..How can i change that so that i can accomodate as many characters i want.
Please help...I got stuck here for long time
Thanks
ANUPAM

Hi,
In the selection texts, don't use the check box to use the dictionary reference. So that you can declare your own text here.
If any text symbol is already declared and now if you want to increase the text, by default the maximum length is assigned.
So simply delete and insert the text symbol again. It will work.
For the selection texts, if you want to use more length, then use as below.
SELECTION-SCREEN BEGIN OF LINE.
PARAMETERS pc_check AS CHECKBOX.
SELECTION-SCREEN COMMENT 4(60) text-020.
SELECTION-SCREEN END OF LINE.
Here the text-020 will come in the selection screen for the above check box.
Regards,
Nangunoori.

How to mofidy the selection text for a report

Dears,
Do you know how to modify a selection text in the selection screen of a standard report, such as changing "Storage Location" in the selection screen of report MB5B to "storage Loc"?
one of a way to realize it is to modify the text of relevant data element.
except modifying the data element directly, It seems that use SE63 could do it, but I forgot how to use it.
Thanks all for your reply.
Zhongkai

Hi Liu,
Check this link for translations thru SE63:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_sm310/helpdata/en/b4/54601d77f38e429ffad9e3e11c1b25/content.htm
Hope this helps you.
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Chandra Sekhar

How do I reliably select text or highlight text with t440s trackpad?

It's astounding to me that you remove so many buttons that most users rely on regularly, and then don't provide any obvious instructions or tutorials on how to use all this functionality.
So I'm trying to do something incredibly simply with buttons -- select some text to copy or paste or cut. I'm using Windows 7 on a t440s.
Apparently the only way to do this -- unreliably -- is to hold the trackpad down (press it all the way in -- not easy to do with one finger!), and try and get the whole thing you need to select in one swoop. If you've mis-positioned your finger on the trackpad to begin the operation, though, you'll run out of space before you get to the edge of the trackpad. And then you need to start over. And keep trying to do it, until you get it.
So now an incredibly simple action I did a dozen times a day before the t440s has become nearly impossible. The 3 times I've tried to do it so far, it's taken me a half dozen times each time. It's not gotten easier.
Which makes me believe I'm missing something here...
So what's the easiest way to select some text on a page, and quickly copy it?
If I get find a simple way to do this, sadly, this laptop might be going back. I can't believe this trend to remove the trackpad buttons amongst manufacturers. If I wanted to buy a Mac, I would've bought a Mac.

You can start by selecting a small portion of text, then release the clickpad, then hold down a Shift key and single-click at the end of the text to be selected -- the selection will expand to encompass the whole text segment ending at your last click.
If you prefer tapping to clicking, in most apps you can start by double-tapping on a word (word gets selected) then use Shift in the same way as above, ending with a single-tap.

Help - text boxes/highlighting hidden unless selected in Acrobat Pro 9.2

I am working Acrobat Pro 9.2. When I insert a text box, it disappears when I click somewhere else. I can only tell it's there If I hover over it - I get a black mouse arrow. If I click on it and select it, then I can see the text and border, but if I click anywhere else, it disappears. I've tried all the options and settings I can find. It is set to show, not hide, all comments and text boxes. Also, when I try to highlight regular text, it puts a little yellow, symbol above my text but does not highlight the text. When I roll the mouse over it, a yellow note pops up with the text I highlighted, but when I move the mouse away, nothing is highlighted. Again, I've tried changing all of the settings I can find related to highlighting but nothing works. I use Acrobat on other computers and have used both text boxes and highlighting without any problem. Is this due to a setting somewhere, or is there something wrong with my installation of Adobe? Thanks.

Something to check.
To have text selected by the Highlight tool placed into the annotation's pop-up:
Preferences > select Category "Commenting"
There are three panes of configuration options.
--| View Comments
--| Pop-Up Open Behavior
--| Making Comments
Tick the last option (Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out, and Underline comment pop-ups) in the third pane.
Play with the other options as you may find others that are very useful.
For form fields:
Preferences > select Category "Forms"
In the first pane (General), select "Show focus rectangle".
In the second pane (Highlight Color) select "Show border hover color for fields".
Be well...

Can I change the select option text for pnp ldb ?

hi Akll,
I am using a pnp logical database in my report and I have created my own hr category because i wanted to use field ename from the ldb in the selection screen. Now the problem with ename is I cant do a case sensitive search.
So I have replaced it with sname, so now my screen has sname instead of ename, however I want to change the selection text for select option ( at present it is 'EE name can be sorted' )
Kindly advise,
thanks,
GV

I guess the text cannot be changed.. anyways you can add the field as an additional field by normal coding in your report

Selecting Text/Cells (MS Office)

I want to create Microsoft Office "Try It - assessment" simulations and i am wondering if "clicking and dragging to select text/table cells-columns etc, and the resulting highlighted text/table" is supported. How can i do this in Captivate 5.5? (I also have ELS 2.5)
If it is not directly supported is there a work around? i.e. check for an inital mouse click and then a mouse release action, use a widget, create it in Flash (i have limited experience in Flash so a URL showing this would help).

Thanks for help and good tips.
I found another workaround for selecting text in Word, selecting cells in Excel - i'll display a button called "Shift" to mirror the action of the Shift key on the keyboard. Click where you want to start your selection, click the Shift button (show it in down state), click where you want to end the selection - text is highlighted.
I can also use the Shift button and Copy command to copy formula in Excel..
(The following forum discussion outlines why "Shift/Control and Click" are NOT supported in Captivate - http://forums.adobe.com/message/3957662#3957662).
I will have to use the Full Motion Recording for mouse down and drag actions in Word and Excel. And the Flash option.... well with my limited experience that will have to wait for another day : )

Trouble selecting text with touch up tool

I have carefully followed the instructions step by step but I cannot get the touch up text tool to turn into an I-beam in order to select text for touching up the color. I have tried with several documents with no luck, trashed the preferences to revert to the default status, closed and reopened acrobat. I've used this facility several times in the past to access the properties of the text in order to change its color, but I can't seem to do it now.
I am using Acrobat 9 for mac on an imac (Intel core i3), currently Under OS10.7.3, but I had the same problem under OS 10.6.8.

Are you looking at scanned text or real text. The inability to get an ibeam (it only comes on when you are over text) is an indication you are likely looking at a graphic. Try it on a file you know for sure is text and see if it works there.

With FF 10, when accessing fields: no cursor appears, cannot select text, no visual indication that you have accessed a field.

When clicking in a field to enter text (as in this text box), no visual indicator appears (i.e., blinking cursor) to let you know that you have accessed the field. In addition, when selecting text in the field, there is no indicator that you have selected text (not highlighted). The only way to know is to start typing or to try and cut the text or paste text. It is not intuitive at all.

You may be experiencing this bug that will be fixed in Firefox 10.0.1, possibly released later this week.
*[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718939 bug 718939] - Java applet causes text entry fields to become semi-unresponsive

Modify selection screen for Logical Database 'SDF'

Hi
I need to make a section of the standard selection screen for logical database 'SDF' invisible. I have tried the differet selection screen options of the report attributes, but none of the provided ones give me what I want.
How can I find the name of the screen group for the "Line Item Selection" block of the selection screen so that I can make it invisible when the selection screen is displayed?
Thanks,
Thomas

I tried to do this:
Loop at screen.
         if   screen-group4 = '026'
           or screen-group4 = '027'
           or screen-group4 = '028'.
             screen-invisible = 1.
             modify screen.
         endif.
endloop.
This removed the selection text for these fields, but the Line Item Selection block is still visible, and the actual input fields are also visible. They now look like password input fields with all ***** in them.
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks for your help!
Thomas

How to create Selection texts in a generated program

Hi there,
Can anybody give me any hint of how can we create selection texts for any selection screen element where the selection screen itself will be generated via some other program?
Thanks in advance.
Best Regards,
Deb.

Hi debkumar,
1. The Important thing is
NAME of the screen element.
eg. name is XYZ.
then we can access it in program like this :
%_XYZ_%_app_%-text = 'Hello Sir'.
(Please note the FORMAT - Its important)
3. try this code (just copy paste in new program)
IT WILL CHANGE TEXT OF RADIO BUTTONS
WHEN PUSHBUTTON IS CLICKED.
REPORT abc.
PARAMETERS : abc RADIOBUTTON GROUP g1,
xyz RADIOBUTTON GROUP g1.
SELECTION-SCREEN : PUSHBUTTON /15(25) pb USER-COMMAND pp .
ABC, XYZ
AT SELECTION-SCREEN .
IF sy-ucomm = 'PP'.
%_abc_%_app_%-text = 'Hello Sir'.
%_xyz_%_app_%-text = 'How are u ?'.
ENDIF.
regards,
amit m.

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