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Re: highlight text in text widget [message #66098]

Thu, 02 April 2009 15:33

neon
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Registered: October 2005

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hmm ok. I guess I have to seek a different route. I've now implemented
a kind of a filter. so displays only the ones that match the keyword.
It would have been a lot easier if the selection worked as my text
widget is also editable.

Thanks for the help,
--
Nirbhik

On Apr 2, 4:16 pm, mgalloy <mgal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> neon wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I am trying to make widget that displays text. I also want a search
>> keywords available. The way I have envisioned is something similar to
>> emacs search, i.e. it highlights all the occurrences of the keyword
>> that you are interested in. I am trying to find out if that kind of
>> highlighting be done in widget_text or some other widgets. Can anyone
>> help?
>
>> Thanks
>
> The only option I know of is the SET_TEXT_SELECT keyword to
> WIDGET_CONTROL. But this only allows a single selection. (Further calls
> always clear the selection first.)
>
> Mike
> --www.michaelgalloy.com
> Associate Research Scientist
> Tech-X Corporation

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		Re: highlight text in text widget By: neon on Thu, 02 April 2009 15:33
		Re: highlight text in text widget By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 02 April 2009 13:16
		Re: highlight text in text widget By: neon on Thu, 02 April 2009 12:48
		Re: highlight text in text widget By: David Fanning on Thu, 02 April 2009 12:13

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