OpenEuphoria

Re: rectangular area text selection

• Posted by D L <d1eu at yahoo.ca> Sep 18, 2004
• 401 views

danielmoyer wrote:
>  
> Just in case, since it would be easier, I'll ask:  do you *really* want
> strict *rectangles* from the text displayed, or would it be sufficient to
> drag the mouse to select part of a line or one or more lines of text with
> optional part of first & last line?  Reason I ask is that there are routines
> in Win32Lib that will allow selection & copy portions of text displayed, if
> that's what you might want.

Dan, I am aware that is easier to select and copy text the way you say,
(I actually tried reading the docs before posting... <pat on my back> ) 
but I *really* need the *rectangular* areas, they are at the essence of
my program. 

All the text/edit controls that I have read about select text sequentially 
but the idea here is to select it "graphically". Note that this also means
that the text has to be displayed as is, without any formatting, i.e.
line wrapping, and wide texts would have to scroll sideways.

Thanks for asking, Denes L.