RichText.GetSelectedText

[yosik]

It would be very helpfull to be able to highlight a peice of text in a RichText object and set it as a string value for a variable. The way it stands now, you can only get the index values of the start and end of a selection.
Furthermore, it would also be interesting to be able to get that selection as elements of a table, one per line, similar to TextFile.ReadToTable.

Yossi

[Darryl]

Thanks for the suggestion Yossi.

REF: 17187

[Worm]

Unless you're saying you want a built in function, you can use String.Mid with the Selection's Start and (End - Start) to grab what you have selected.

[yosik]

Yes you can, Worm (and thanks for helping in this), but I think that there should be a built-in action.
Even if you could use the Clipboard action and copy the selected text into it, you can only paste it. You cannot put the clipboard content into a variable (and actually, you cannot do the opposite: read a variable value into the clipboard).

Yossi

[SonG0han]

But you can.
Try this: Click on Project > Plugins... in the filemenu and enable the Clipboard Plugin.

This enables new actions like:
result = Clipboard.GetText(); -- put text from clipboard in a var
Clipboard.CopyText("My Text"); -- copy text into clipboard (can be a var)

[yosik]

I stand corrected.
You are 100% right.
Thanks for pointing that out.

Yossi

[Worm]

You were scaring me a little there Yos. I thought my memory was going. Maybe I need to paste a little more to my own clipboard

[yosik]

I am looking for a memory compressing package. I could use additional space in my brain.....
Overload...Overwork...Over...everything... This is the result...


Yossi