[wxPython-users] Controlling selection in an HtmlWindow

[Robin Dunn]

Ken Seehart wrote:
> I got scrolling working just fine, but selection seems to be a harder 
> problem.
> 
> It seems that HtmlWindow doesn't have any methods for getting/setting 
> the selection range.  Of course there is SelectionToText, but that's not 
> much help.  SelectWord and SelectLine are also useless because they are 
> based on screen coordinates, and in any case are arbitrary and not 
> general enough.
> 
> It's hard to believe that there is no way to access selection based on 
> character offset in the html source.  Am I missing something?  Perhaps a 
> message based interface?  The desired functionality is missing from 
> wxWidgets.

I don't see anything in the current API for this.  There is some 
cell-based information on the current selection, but it appears to be 
available only when rendering the content.  Please file a bug report or 
feature request about this.


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Robin Dunn
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