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Re: Avoiding Moving The Cursor Before Start of Document

by Cor Nouws :: Rate this Message:

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Hi Hal,

Thnks for posting back.
Your proposed solution looks OK. When you have the final version, I'll
try to take a closer look. Maybe you can post it as extension on the
extension site?

Regards - Cor

Hal Vaughan wrote (26-6-2009 17:19)

> I may have a solution that's a bit different than what's been suggested,
> but thanks to both Cor and Fernand because what they wrote gave me the
> idea.  I still have to code this and be sure it's what I want.  A quick
> check tells me that if I have one character at the beginning, once I
> move the cursor over that character, I can keep trying oCurse.goLeft(),
> but the length of the string in the selection (sKey in this case) does
> not change.  So I think I can just keep track of the length of the
> selected string.  If I try goLeft() and the string length doesn't
> change, that should tell me I can't go left anymore and I'm at the
> beginning.
>
> If this works, I'll post a fixed version.  I think I also exported this
> or was going to so other people could use them as well.  If I haven't
> done it already, I will.  I like it because it's a lot like AutoCorrect,
> but I can define new key phrases and replacement texts in a hurry and
> they are stored in the document, but can be exported to a text file and
> imported in another document, so they are document specific but can be
> transferred.


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