This has been a problem for a while. Many people including myself have run into it.
I know of no solution. When I was addressing the problem, I considered using a 3rd party library of WYSIWYG but did not get deep enough into it to report any success. Good luck On Aug 29, 4:32 pm, Quan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Duh, stupid me. But I don't see this method in the RichTextArea widget > though. I'd like to use the font effects of RichTextArea along with > this. I thought TextArea is just a simpler version of RichTextArea, > apparently they're very different. Is there an easy way of getting > this to work with RichTextArea besides creating a new customized > widget? > > On Aug 29, 3:49 pm, "Ian Bambury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > textArea.getSelectedText()? > > > 2008/8/29 Quan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > My problem is I need to detect what text string in a TextArea is being > > > highlighted. For example, when I highlight a certain text in a > > > paragraph and hit a button only that string is shown on a Label. Is > > > there some type of Listener for this purpose? > > > > I know this must be possible because the RichTextArea widget has this > > > capability, when you highlight a string of text, you can toggle > > > different font effects just for that particular string. I've been > > > looking into the RichTextArea source but have found no success. > > > -- > > Ian > > >http://examples.roughian.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
