How do i make a line (or lines) readonly.

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Posted 19 years ago by GeorgeNY - CTO, RatchetSoft, LLC
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I would like to make certain lines readonly.

Using this example:

1. using XYZ;
2. public class MyClass
3. {
4. public void MyMethod1()
5. {
6 do smth;
7. do smth else;
8. }
9. public void MyMethod2()
10. {
11. do smth;
12. do smth else;
13. do even more;
14. }
15. }

I would like to make lines 1-5 and 8-10 and 14-15 readonly, thus allowing the user to modify only the contents of one of the 2 C# methods. Line numbers will not work, because the user will be adding many lines within each method. I thought there may be something with SpanIndicators?

Please provide details.

George P Weihs

Comments (4)

Posted 19 years ago by Boyd - Sr. Software Developer, Patterson Consulting, LLC
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This has been requested in the past, and there is no current solution for making parts of the document read-only. I believe it has been added to the TODO list.
Posted 19 years ago by Actipro Software Support - Cleveland, OH, USA
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Yes that is still on the TODO list.


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Posted 19 years ago by Boyd - Sr. Software Developer, Patterson Consulting, LLC
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If you're still trying to think of how to implement this feature, I think a read-only Span Indicator would be a good approach. The collapsed text for an outlining node appears to already behave that way, so it'd be a good start.

Either way, I'm sure you'll figure it out. <IMG SRC="biggrin.gif" border="0">
Posted 19 years ago by painetraine
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Or, in addition to spans, allow the user to specify LexicalStates as being read only. I have several states that I insert manually and don't want the user to Edit. I currently try to capture keystrokes in the state but that doesn't work all the time.

So maybe 3 read only methods:

1. Line
2. Spans
3. Lexical States

Thanks
The latest build of this product (v24.1.0) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

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