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wxTextCtrl Selected Text

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Hi. How do you make it so text stays selected when the contents of a text control change? Every time the contents change, my selection gets unselected...
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Post by spectrum »

i would try to reselect all, inside the "change" event.

See:
wxTextCtrl documentation,
EVT_TEXT(id, func),
wxTextCtrl samples.

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Post by miclus »

Ok, I traced it to this function:

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void wxRichTextCtrl::DoWriteText(const wxString& value, int flags)
{
    wxString valueUnix = wxTextFile::Translate(value, wxTextFileType_Unix);

    GetBuffer().InsertTextWithUndo(m_caretPosition+1, valueUnix, this, wxRICHTEXT_INSERT_WITH_PREVIOUS_PARAGRAPH_STYLE);

    if ( flags & SetValue_SendEvent )
        SendTextUpdatedEvent();
}

Since AppendText doesn't use the flags, it can only be that InsertTextWithUndo line.

Any ideas how to stop it from deselecting selected text?
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Post by doublemax »

That the selection gets lots when changing/adding text is pretty much standard behavior in any textcontrol in know of. I guess your only chance is to store/restore the selection yourself after adding text, but you might get an ugly flicker.
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Post by miclus »

Yeah, that's what I did. Works out ok. Thanks.
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