need help on text highlighting & capture backspace

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Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

To only highlight some text you'd have to create a SpanIndicator and assign that over the text range.

To get the Backspace key, right now you'll have to create a class that inherits from SyntaxEditor and overrides ProcessCmdKey. Right now the Backspace action is firing from the Backspace keypress and cancels the control from ever seeing it. We're going to be looking into revamping how keypresses work for a future version to try and make things like Backspace more accessible.

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Posted 20 years ago by @hotmail.com

I can capture the Backspace key by using ProcessCmdKey method.

But I have on idea how to use SpanIndicator to select some text. Could you please provide some sample code to do that(such as how to initialize the SpanIndicator, how to put it in the indicator list, and how to set the select text range)?

Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

I think there is code in the sample app when there is a gutter click it puts a BreakpointIndicator over the selected text. Check that out.

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Posted 20 years ago by @hotmail.com

How can I just select the text and don't draw the breakpoint if using the breakpointindicator?

Posted 20 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA

Just make a class that inherits from SpanIndicator and use that instead. When you call the base SpanIndicator constructor, pass IndicatorMarks.StyleAssignment. Then override the GetHighlightingStyle method. Here's the one for BreakoointIndicator as a sample:


/// &lt;summary&gt;
/// Returns the &lt;see cref="HighlightingStyle"/&gt; to use when drawing text within the indicator.
/// &lt;/summary&gt;
/// &lt;returns&gt;The &lt;see cref="HighlightingStyle"/&gt; to use when drawing text within the indicator.&lt;/returns&gt;
/// &lt;remarks&gt;This method should be implemented by indicators that have a style assignment.&lt;/remarks&gt;
protected internal override HighlightingStyle GetHighlightingStyle() {
    return new HighlightingStyle("BreakpointStyle", "Breakpoint", foreColor, backColor, false, false, false);
}

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The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 2 months ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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