Re: position

HI Daniel,
              You are correct. There is no method that returns the
current caret position, nor is their method that sets the caret
position to an absolute location. There are numerous methods that move
the caret about the place, like start/end of document, starte/end of
line, search for text etc.

The currently implemented methods in the Pyhton bindings re those
needed for the "Write" application used by the One Laptop Per Child
project as well as our guesses as to what would be usefula nd easy to
implement.

It is actually extremely easy to add the two methods you requested and
I'm happy to do this.

I guess you want:

int getCurrentCaretPos()
void setCaretPos(int ipos)

Right?

I could also implement:

void setSelection(int posLow, int posHigh)

If that is helpful.

As for our plans for pyabiword, well actually we'll follow the
requests of users of the feature. Ask us what you'd like and if its
easy we'll just do it. If it's hard we'll explain why and and see how
we can move forward.

Cheers!

Martin

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Daniel Carvalho <idnael@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi
>
> is there a way in PyAbiword to get the cursor position, and go back
> there programatically? (i'm using pyabiword 0.6.1)
>
> I see that most of the methods available are only those necessary to
> implement toolbars or menubars and execute actions in response to
> these commands. The api is still very incomplete for a python program.
> What are the future plans for pyabiword?
>
> thanks!
> daniel
>
Received on Mon Feb 9 01:36:47 2009