[Gambas-user] Line Column

[Rob]

On Wednesday 08 September 2004 16:55, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > 	    Line 2. Gambas Maskot is a Blue Shrimp
> > The question is letter p in 'Shrimp' of line two in which
> > col ?
> Could you be more general in your request ? Why 'p' ?

I ran into the same thing when I was trying to write a terminal 
emulator a few weeks ago, and I ended up using a DrawingArea 
instead (which works VERY well, but I'm just using a fixed width 
font in one size and regular/bold, since it's just a terminal.)

Right now, as far as I know, while it's easy to find out at which 
character position your cursor is at in a textarea, it's kind of 
a pain in the ass to figure out at which line/column you're at.  
I actually wanted to find out where the user was clicking in a 
TextView, by line and column, and I think that's entirely 
impossible, but here's a workaround for the TextArea:

Er, I had just dashed off an example, but pressing F2 by accident 
on a blank line in the editor just now caused the IDE to crash!  
Damn!

Rob