Foxtools – Editor _EDSTOSEL

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Foxtools Editor Support Functions

_EDSTOSEL

_EdSToSel() Scrolls editor session window passed in <nWHAND> parameter so that the highlighted area becomes visible. The function name is an abbreviation for “Editor Scroll To Selection” and has nothing to do with “storing” something (like one can read in other documentations out in the dark :-)

VFP Syntax

= _EdSToSel(nWHAND, lCenter)

Parameters

[in] nWHAND

Fox-window handle of the editor session in question. If nWHANDL is no valid editor-session handle, an error “API call caused an exception” (Error 2028) is raised.

[in] lCenter

If TRUE, then the highlighted text is vertically centred in the editor session window. If FALSE, then the highlighted text is made visible without vertical centring. Note: If you use FALSE and have highlighted more than a single line of text, then _EdSToSel() does NOT make the whole text block visible, but only scrolls as long as no selected line is visible! As soon as the first highlighted line becomes visible, scrolling stops like shown below:

Scrolling Selected Block Without Vertical Centring

Returns

VOID - no evaluable return value, coz always TRUE.

Remarks

The _EdSToSel() does not move the caret. If the highlighted text is already visible (must be fully displayed), then calling  _EdSToSel() with <lCenter> = .F. does nothing. Calling  _EdSToSel() with <lCenter> = .T. may move the highlighted text to vertical centre if it isn’t already centred. If the editor session window doesn’t have a vertical scroll bar displayed, the _EdSToSel() does nothing, coz there is nothing to scroll :-)

VFP Example(s)

Opening an editor session, selecting some text, finally scrolling text so that the highlighted block will be displayed centred:

*\\ Open editor session
nWHAND =_EDOPENFIL("TEST.TXT", 1)
nLineNo = 09 && from line 10
nFromLine = _EdGetLPos(nWHAND, m.nLineNo)
nLineNo = 15 && to line 15
nToLine = _EdGetLPos(nWHAND, m.nLineNo)-1
*\\ select the text block
_EDSELECT(m.nWHAND, m.nFromLine, m.nToLine)
= _EdSToSel(m.nWHAND, .F.)

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