OpenEuphoria

Re: [win32] cursor

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Nov 06, 2002
• 426 views

I'll take this on board for a future release.

7/11/2002 12:04:50 PM, mistertrik at hotmail.com wrote:

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>bah.... ok thanks.
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>I think that there should be at least a wrapper func called 
>getCursorPosition or something.
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>Also, to insert text where the cursor is, it looks like I'm going to have to 
>do something like this:
>sequence text
>atom pos
>text = getText(myctrl)
>pos = getIndex(myctrl)
>setText(myctrl, text[1..pos] & "hello there" & text[pos+1..length(text)])
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>In my mind, when setSelectedText was called, if there wasn't anything 
>selected it would insert text at the cursor position.
>That seems to be more logical, rather than do nothing.
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>>From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
>>Reply-To: EUforum at topica.com
>>To: EUforum <EUforum at topica.com>
>>Subject: Re: [win32] cursor
>>Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 11:37:49 +1100
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>>Its not documented as such but the getIndex() call will return the cursor 
>>location from an edit or
>>richedit box. Currently the docs only mention ListView and Treeview, but it 
>>also works for Listbox
>>and Combos.
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>>7/11/2002 11:27:13 AM, mistertrik at hotmail.com wrote:
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>> >How do you find the cursor position in a MLEedit?
>> >
>> >I have an edit window, and I want to be able to insert a string into 
>>where
>> >the cursor position is.
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>>Cheers,
>>Derek Parnell
>>ICQ# 7647806
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Cheers,
Derek Parnell 
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