DeleteHorizontalSpace - SyntaxEditor for Windows Forms Forum

Posted 18 years ago by Krispy

Hello - I have been trying to implement the DeleteHorizontalWhitespace method of the SyntaxEditor control.

If I select the following text and trigger the DeleteHorizontalWhitespace method:

Quote:
a.......b.......c
(where '.' is whitespace)

I would expect to see "abc" in the editor, however the following string is displayed instead:

Quote:
a.b.c

If I trigger the DeleteHorizontalWhitespace method for a second time, the editor displays "abc", which is what I was expecting the first time the method was fired.

Is this a bug with the DeleteHorizontalWhitespace method or is my understanding of the method flawed?

Thanks in advance.

Comments (2)

Posted 18 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

No this two-stage approach is by design since it mimics how Visual Studio works exactly. And it is quite handy in certain scenarios.

The first pass only happens if there is a run of more than one whitespace in the selection. In that case it normalizes all the whitespace down to a single space.

The second pass occurs if the selection only contains single spaces. In that case it removes the spaces.

Actipro Software Support

Posted 18 years ago by Krispy

Great - thanks for clearing that up and thanks for the swift reponse.

Much appreciated.

The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 4 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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