That's certainly one way to do it, and for small amounts of text, it
will be quite suitable. For large amounts of text, there are better
ways to track selection.
I'm presently working on a text editor. I was looking for a decent
replacement for the RB editfield for a while, and decided I was going to
have to embark on my own.
I'm also going to be working on a selectable static text too, perhaps I
can post that when I've got it together.
- Ryan Dary
Phil M wrote:
On Sep 24, 2006, at 6:26 PM, Ryan Dary wrote:
It wouldn't be too difficult to just make a canvas-based control that
does what a static text does, and then add the selection
functionality. Let me know (off list) if you need any help.
Drawing the control, no it wouldn't be hard at all. What is more
difficult is tracking selection for individual characters... especially
in cases where:
(g.StringWidth("i") + g.StringWidth("t")) <> (g.StringWidth("it")
I cannot imagine how many possible variables it would be to make a text
editor based on a Canvas. I know it can be done because I have seen
other REALbasic applications with Canvas-based editors. If I get
character selection working, the only thing missing from a text editor
would be the keyboard input.
So how would you do it?
Would you start at the beginning of the line and test StringWidth for
the phrase up until that character? And then the first character past
"x" is the clicked character?
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