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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Selection in TE
Message-ID: <13987@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 9 Jul 90 18:41:53 GMT
References: <14358@csli.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.UUCP (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <14358@csli.Stanford.EDU> weyand@csli.Stanford.EDU (Chris Weyand) writes:
>I'm writing an application that selects text (using TextEdit) from
>the keyboard (e.g. select word,sentence, ...)  There doesn't seem to
>be any way of extending a selection without calling TEClick.  Is
>this correct?  The only solution I could come up with was to call TEClick

I might be missing the point but why can't you use:

 TESetSelect(selStart, selEnd, te);

If you don't know what the previous selction range is you can do something
like:

selstart:=te^^.selstart;
selEnd:=te^^.selend;

{calculate your new offset, being a word, sentance or char}

TESetSelect(selStart, selEnd, te);

I can't believe Apple didn't include a TEGetSelect call. And I thought Apple
was against accessing the data structures directly. Yet in IM vol I pg 377
they state: "Some TextEdit features are available only if you access fields of
the edit record directly."

Well anyway I hope I anwsered what you were asking.


>Anyone have any help?
>
>Thanks
>Chris Weyand
>weyand@csli.Stanford.edu


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