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From: mxmora@unix.SRI.COM (Matt Mora)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: EditText question
Message-ID: <23773@unix.SRI.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 91 16:13:44 GMT
References: <1991Apr30.010156.4752@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu>
Reply-To: mxmora@unix.sri.com (Matt Mora)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
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In article <1991Apr30.010156.4752@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> kpmiller@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Kent P Miller) writes:
>I have some source code that looks like this:
>
>TESetSelect(0, 300, TE_Edit_Text);
>TEDelete(TE_Edit_Text);
>TEUpdate(TE_Rect_Edit_Text, TE_Edit_Text);
>TESetText(@st[1], length(st), TE_Edit_Text);
>
>This usually works fine.  But, if I select a little part of the text before
>this code gets executed,  The text gets screwed up when it gets pumped into
>the area.  For instance, if I try to pump in the a string, and I select some
>of the original text in the area first, the first 4 characters are invisible.
>What am I doing wrong?

Let me see if I understand what you are trying to do:
>TESetSelect(0, 300, TE_Edit_Text);
select chars 0-300

>TEDelete(TE_Edit_Text);
delete selected chars



>TESetText(@st[1], length(st), TE_Edit_Text);
set the te to hold the data in st.

What you might want to try is:
TESetSelect(0, 300, TE_Edit_Text);
TEDelete(TE_Edit_Text);
TESetText(@st[1], length(st), TE_Edit_Text);
TECalText( TE_Edit_Text);
EraseRect(TE_Rect_Edit_Text);
TEUpdate(TE_Rect_Edit_Text, TE_Edit_Text);



That might solve your problem.




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