Drag Drop to replace whole word

Hi Andrew,I believe the PasteDragDrop event files right before the text is replaced.  If it has an e.Action of DragDrop, you can update the view's selection to be over the range to replace (i.e. "foo").  When the event handler finishes, whatever is selected in the view is replaced.

You could probably get the hit test info with this sort of code in that event handler:

var pos = e.DragEventArgs.GetPosition(view.SyntaxEditor);
view.SyntaxEditor.HitTest(pos);

Thank you kindly, this got me headed in the right direction.

The PasteDragDrop event only seems to fire upon entry and the final drop. But the PreviewDragOver event in combination with the HitTest code you provided can be used to handle this situation.

Much appreciated.

After getting the drag selection working nicely, I am now seeing that the selected text is still not being replaced, instead the text is still being placed at the 'drop caret'.

Is there a certain way that the selection needs to be set in order for that aspect to work?

Thanks.

In the mean time, a work-around is to simply handle the replacement manually within the PasteDragDrop event, and set the Text argument to Null which prevents the insertion.

Yes, it looks like the selection does get set after the event fires and before the replace text change occurs.  What you are doing (doing the replace yourself and setting e.Text to null) is probably the best way to handle this.

Thanks. It's working well.