[wxPython-users] Controlling selection in an HtmlWindow

[Ken Seehart]

Okay,  that's what I thought.  There doesn't seem to be any way to get 
at that functionality.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=109863&aid=1696116&group_id=9863 
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Robin Dunn wrote:
> 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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