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Re: highlight text in text widget [message #66102 is a reply to message #66098]

Thu, 02 April 2009 13:16

Michael Galloy
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Registered: April 2006

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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
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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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