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Caret on beginning of selection [message #462967]

Mon, 24 October 2005 08:04

Pavel Halas

Messages: 2
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi all,

is there a chance in SWT Text widget to programmaticaly set a selection
with a caret to be on the beginning of the selection?

Example: some|TEXT

- "some" is a not selected part of the text in Text widget
- "|" is a caret position
- "TEXT" is a selected part of the text in Text widget

For better understanding, it's about autocomplete functionality.

Thanks for suggestions,
Pavel Halas

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Re: Caret on beginning of selection [message #462982 is a reply to message #462967]

Mon, 24 October 2005 19:28

Peter Kliem

Messages: 35
Registered: July 2009

Member

Hi Pavel,

I faced the same problem and did not find a clean solution. I did the
hack of subclassing the widget (StyledText in my case) and introduced a
new method that does not reset the selection when setting the caret offset.

This solution is clearly discouraged - but works for me.

Peter

Pavel Halas wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is there a chance in SWT Text widget to programmaticaly set a selection
> with a caret to be on the beginning of the selection?
>
> Example: some|TEXT
>
> - "some" is a not selected part of the text in Text widget
> - "|" is a caret position
> - "TEXT" is a selected part of the text in Text widget
>
> For better understanding, it's about autocomplete functionality.
>
> Thanks for suggestions,
> Pavel Halas
>

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Re: Caret on beginning of selection [message #462989 is a reply to message #462982]

Tue, 25 October 2005 07:14

Stefan Langer

Messages: 236
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Open a feature request for it and tell us the bug number so people can
vote on it.

Peter Kliem wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> I faced the same problem and did not find a clean solution. I did the
> hack of subclassing the widget (StyledText in my case) and introduced a
> new method that does not reset the selection when setting the caret offset.
>
> This solution is clearly discouraged - but works for me.
>
> Peter
>
> Pavel Halas wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> is there a chance in SWT Text widget to programmaticaly set a
>> selection with a caret to be on the beginning of the selection?
>>
>> Example: some|TEXT
>>
>> - "some" is a not selected part of the text in Text widget
>> - "|" is a caret position
>> - "TEXT" is a selected part of the text in Text widget
>>
>> For better understanding, it's about autocomplete functionality.
>>
>> Thanks for suggestions,
>> Pavel Halas
>>

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Re: Caret on beginning of selection [message #463040 is a reply to message #462967]

Tue, 25 October 2005 14:37

Pavel Halas

Messages: 2
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

If you need such functionality, vote for the bug #113664.

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Re: Caret on beginning of selection [message #463043 is a reply to message #463040]

Tue, 25 October 2005 16:56

Gail Jakubowski

Messages: 36
Registered: July 2009

Member

I requested similar functionality for StyledText, bug #113354.

"Pavel Halas" <peeman@post.cz> wrote in message
news:4b20742218a795244b5083798d82d501$1@www.eclipse.org...
> If you need such functionality, vote for the bug #113664.
>

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