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kilon.alios

How to find the cursor position relative to its text for TextMorph or RubTextFieldArea

At first I thought that TextMorph>>cursor would return me the position of the cursor relative to its text so if I have a text like "hello" and cursor (that blinking thing) was at "o" it would return 6 but no, whatever position I try it returns always 1 . With rubric I found no way to do this either.

Anyone has a clue, or to I need some kind of pharo dark magic ? Is this a bug , a feature or something in between ?

kilon.alios

Re: How to find the cursor position relative to its text for TextMorph or RubTextFieldArea

and to answer my own question the answer is

TextMorph editor pointIndex.

And now I can create a specialized input field only for time that automatically formats to HH:MM:SS

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:21 PM Dimitris Chloupis <[hidden email]> wrote:

At first I thought that TextMorph>>cursor would return me the position of the cursor relative to its text so if I have a text like "hello" and cursor (that blinking thing) was at "o" it would return 6 but no, whatever position I try it returns always 1 . With rubric I found no way to do this either.

Anyone has a clue, or to I need some kind of pharo dark magic ? Is this a bug , a feature or something in between ?

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Re: How to find the cursor position relative to its text for TextMorph or RubTextFieldArea

Hello Dimitris,

Why do you use TextMorph and not RubScrolledTextModel or RubTextFieldMorph ?

Cheers

Alain

On 11 Nov 2015, at 16:28, Dimitris Chloupis <[hidden email]> wrote:

and to answer my own question the answer is

TextMorph editor pointIndex.

And now I can create a specialized input field only for time that automatically formats to HH:MM:SS

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:21 PM Dimitris Chloupis <[hidden email]> wrote:
At first I thought that TextMorph>>cursor would return me the position of the cursor relative to its text so if I have a text like "hello" and cursor (that blinking thing) was at "o" it would return 6 but no, whatever position I try it returns always 1 . With rubric I found no way to do this either.

Anyone has a clue, or to I need some kind of pharo dark magic ? Is this a bug , a feature or something in between ?

kilon.alios

Re: How to find the cursor position relative to its text for TextMorph or RubTextFieldArea

because its simpler to understand and because I made it work the way I wanted faster than the Rubric alternatives.

For example finding the cursor position for a RubScrolledTextMorph is even worse and is located at textArea selectionInterval which I did not even find by myself because the name would never have me guessed that selection had anything to do with cursor position. But I was told so by another smalltalker at slack chat.

And even though my code formating worked great with TextMorph via keyStroke message when I tried to port my code to the Rubric keyStroke alternative it stopped working and I did not manage to find out why before I finally managed to find how to get the cursor position from a TextMorph.

Generally speaking Morphic is my first choice for the simple fact that when it comes to Rubric, Glamour, Spec or whatever else Morphic still remains the basis. So if I am going to learn Morphic anyway then I might as well make it my first choice and when it cant do what I want the easy way then I will look into the alternatives.

Frankly I really like Morphic. Still new to it, but its generally design makes more sense to me than other pharo GUI APIs.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 7:30 PM Alain Plantec via Pharo-users <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello Dimitris,
Why do you use TextMorph and not RubScrolledTextModel or RubTextFieldMorph ?
Cheers
Alain

On 11 Nov 2015, at 16:28, Dimitris Chloupis <[hidden email]> wrote:

and to answer my own question the answer is

TextMorph editor pointIndex.

And now I can create a specialized input field only for time that automatically formats to HH:MM:SS

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 3:21 PM Dimitris Chloupis <[hidden email]> wrote:
At first I thought that TextMorph>>cursor would return me the position of the cursor relative to its text so if I have a text like "hello" and cursor (that blinking thing) was at "o" it would return 6 but no, whatever position I try it returns always 1 . With rubric I found no way to do this either.

Anyone has a clue, or to I need some kind of pharo dark magic ? Is this a bug , a feature or something in between ?