Re: textctrl.PositionToXy

On 2/16/22 16:06, Nathan smith wrote:

>
> could someone give me a quick rundown of what textCtrl.PositionToXy=20
> actually does?
>
> According to the documentation it returns a 0 based line position and=20
> column number, which I would assume to mean,:
> PositionToXy(t1.GetInsertionPoint())
> would return (x, y) where y is the line number in the widget and x is=20
> the character count from left to right.

That's the theory, yes.


> bug first off it returns (Bool, X, Y). What is that bool for?

Success or failure.=C2=A0 You can look at the wxWidgets C++ reference for=
=20
that.=C2=A0 It only fails if the incoming position is way too large.


> And second off I have a texCtrl that is returning 318 when it only has=20
> 169 lines in it.

Interesting.=C2=A0 Does it return a reasonable X?=C2=A0 What was the=20
GetInsertionPoint value?

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Tim Roberts, [email protected]
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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