Certainly, you just needed to mention the word "cursor" ;-)
view layout [
a: area "place your cursor then click button" button "insert" [
insert system/view/caret "<inserted>" show a]
]
A few other insights are available if you are "game enough" to sift through
the ctx-text object.
Regards,
Brett.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thorsten Moeller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 11:51 PM
Subject: [REBOL] Re: specific position in area
> Hi Brett,
>
> thanks for your reply.
>
> Your example may work when there is a defined word like "somwhere" in the
> text to be able to search for with find. But, what i need is to insert
text at
> the cursor position in the text.
>
> little example:
>
> "this is text"
>
> when the cursor stands between "is" and "text" i want to be able to insert
> "my" at this position so that the result is "this is my text".
>
> Is there any way to achieve this with rebol?
>
>
> Thorsten
>
>
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > view layout [
> > a: area 500x300 {
> > > if i have an layout with an area containing some text and i want to to
> > > insert some text somewhere in a line, not the beginning or end with a
> > click on a
> > > button, how can this be done.
> > }
> >
> > button "Insert now" [
> > p: find/tail a/text "somewhere "
> > insert p "(like here)"
> > show a
> >
> > t/text: reform ["Inserted at:" index? p]
> > show t
> > ]
> >
> > t: text 200x25 white
> >
> > ]
> >
> > I hope this helps.
> > Brett.
> >
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