Drag & Drop - Get Text and/or Position when hovering - SyntaxEditor for Windows Forms Forum

Posted 20 years ago by Michael Maes

Hi,

I've subclassed the Editor to raise the 'standard' D&D-Events.
Those work as I like now.

The next issue I stumbled upon is how to determine the position where the Cursor (dragging) is over and what the 'underlying' text is.
Some controls have Functions like: 'GetRowAt', 'GetAppointmentAt', ...
I've searched the forum, but I haven't been able to find a solution to my needs.

Bottomline: I need the Word under the Cursor while dragging over the Editor. This in a perpetual way (so if i drag over a sentence, i get every word sepparate).

Thanks,

Michael

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

Check out EditorView.OffsetFromLocation. That allows you to pass in client coords and get the offset under it.

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Posted 20 years ago by Michael Maes

I'm sorry, could you please post an example. I allready had tried

Quote:
<font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR> Debug.WriteLine(sedOutput.Views(0).OffsetFromLocation(New Point(e.X, e.Y), ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.LocationToOffsetAlgorithm.Absolute))
Debug.WriteLine(sedOutput.Views(0).OffsetFromLocation(sedOutput.MousePosition, ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.LocationToOffsetAlgorithm.Absolute))
<HR>

but that didn't work (always -1).

Could you also include a snippet to get the word on that location please.

Thanks!

Michael

PS: I also saw 'editor.Document.CurrentView.OffsetFromLocation' a couple of times on the forum. Is CurrentView obsolete because I have no such memeber in 'Document'. (I have v2.5.151.0)

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

Yes, it's now SelectedView.

So you'd do something like this:

sedOutput.SelectedView.OffsetFromLocation(New Point(e.X, e.Y), ActiproSoftware.SyntaxEditor.LocationToOffsetAlgorithm.BestFit)

Also, read the documentation on the LocationToOffsetAlgorithm enumeration. There are three values and each of them do different things. Absolute returns -1 if you are not over an offset at all. The other two will attempt to find which offset you are closest to if you are not over one.

[ 03-16-2005: Message edited by: Actipro Software Support ]

Actipro Software Support

The latest build of this product (v24.1.1) was released 1 month ago, which was after the last post in this thread.

Drag & Drop - Get Text and/or Position when hovering

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