Programmatically select text

[ostfale]

I have some formatted text which consists of variables at fixed position. I can select the variables (combobox) and want to show (select) them in the text. I can jump to the right line / column. But if I call selectRange it highlights text in the first line.

Thx for help, regards, Uwe

[TomasMikula]

Hi, selectRange expects absolute positions. Are you calling it with absolute positions?

If you have

int startRow;
int startCol;
int endRow;
int endCol;

you can convert them to absolute positions like this:

int startPos = area.position(startRow, startCol).toOffset();
int endPos = area.position(endRow, endCol).toOffset();
area.selectRange(startPos, endPos);

[ostfale]

That's exactly the solution! Thanks...

[TomasMikula]

There are now convenience methods taking row/col coordinates in the snapshot release thanks to @JordanMartinez via #331.