[Gambas-user] Line Column

[Benoit Minisini]

On Thursday 09 September 2004 00:36, Rob wrote:
> 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!
>

OK. I fixed it.

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Benoit Minisini
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