Cursor Pos from a Token?

I assume you mean the x,y pixel location? In the SyntaxEditor world, that is called a "location".

Check out the "General Features / Offset, Positions, and Locations" topic in the documentation. It tells how to get it.

I replied and it looks like my reply got lost somewhere, so I apologize if this gets repeated.

Anyway, what I really meant was the character offset from the Token. I thought this should be the Token.Startoffset. Which it is. But the thing is I was using this in conjuction with SelectedView.Selection.StartOffset;

So here lies the problem, if I select text using the Mouse, this property is always the same as the LastOffset. If I select text using ctrl-a then this property is what it should be, 0.

Can you duplicate this?

The start offset of the selection is only the same as the end offset of the selection if there is no selection range. In that case both offsets are the same as the caret offset. If there is a selection range, the end offset is where the caret is.

I'm pretty sure there's no problems here or else painting would not work correctly.

all the same, I'm also pretty sure this is what is happening.

I have a break point into this block...

if (...SelectedView.Selection.Length > 0)
{
SelOffset = pTab.syntaxEdit.SelectedView.Selection.LastOffset;
SelOffset = pTab.syntaxEdit.SelectedView.Selection.StartOffset;
}


both values are identical only with mouse selection. If what you're saying is the case it wouldn't come up.

No I said StartOffset and EndOffset will be different when there is a selection. Start offset is where the start anchor is. End offset is where the caret ends up (which could be before the start offset if a backwards selection was made).

Since the start and end offsets could be backwards, we made the FirstOffset and LastOffset properties which return the normalized selection range. So Start- and End- are a pair and First- and Last- are a pair.

gotcha, I didn't realize you had 4 offsets... makes sense now since I tend to select going upwards.

It's a little confusing but is complete, and by using one pair or the other you can get to all the information you need.