wxSTC looses previous Selection...

[dode]

wxSTC looses previous Selection...

void wxSearchInFilesFrame::selectLine(uint iLine)
{
m_scintilla->GotoLine(iLine - 1);
int lineStart = m_scintilla->PositionFromLine(m_scintilla->GetCurrentLine());
int lineEnd = m_scintilla->PositionFromLine(m_scintilla->GetCurrentLine() + 1);
m_scintilla->SetSelection(lineStart, lineEnd);
}

Any Idea how to make it persistent.

[New Pagodi]

I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you want to extend the selection from the old selection to iLine? If so, you could do something like

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int s = m_scintilla->GetSelectionStart();
int e = m_scintilla->GetSelectionEnd();
m_scintilla->GotoLine(iLine - 1);
int lineStart = m_scintilla->PositionFromLine(m_scintilla->GetCurrentLine());
int lineEnd = m_scintilla->PositionFromLine(m_scintilla->GetCurrentLine() + 1);
if(s<lineStart)
    m_scintilla->SetSelection(s, lineEnd);
else if(e<lineEnd)
    m_scintilla->SetSelection(lineStart, lineEnd);
else
    m_scintilla->SetSelection(lineStart, e);

Or if you want true multiple selections, you could do:

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int selections = m_scintilla->GetSelections();
std::vector<int> carets,anchors;

for(int i=0;i<selections;i++)
{
    carets.push_back(m_scintilla->GetSelectionNCaret(i));
    anchors.push_back(m_scintilla->GetSelectionNAnchor(i));
}

m_scintilla->GotoLine(iLine - 1);
int lineStart = m_scintilla->PositionFromLine(m_scintilla->GetCurrentLine());
int lineEnd = m_scintilla->PositionFromLine(m_scintilla->GetCurrentLine() + 1);

for(int i=0;i<selections;i++)
{
    m_scintilla->AddSelection(carets[i],anchors[i]);
}

m_scintilla->AddSelection(lineStart,lineEnd);

[dode]

Actually the second piece of code did the job.

No i wonder how do i change the selection color ?

Kind Regards
Dode

[New Pagodi]

You can set the colors for the main selection with lines like:

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m_scintilla->SetSelForeground( true, wxColour(<red>,<green>,<blue>) );
m_scintilla->SetSelBackground( true, wxColour(<red>,<green>,<blue>) );

Setting colors for the additional selections is slightly different:

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m_scintilla->SetAdditionalSelBackground( wxColour(<red>,<green>,<blue>) );
m_scintilla->SetAdditionalSelForeground( wxColour(<red>,<green>,<blue>) );

You can also set a transparency level for selections with:

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m_scintilla->SetSelAlpha( <n> );
m_scintilla->SetAdditionalSelAlpha( <n> );

where <n> is an integer between 0 and 256 (256=no alpha). I've never been able to make anything look good using transparency though.

Incidentally, since STC has so many methods, I wrote a program that breaks the methods into categories and lets you try them out with a styled text control. If you're going to be doing a lot of work with that control, you might find it helpful.

wxStyledTextCtrl Method and Event Explorer