Re: [Boa Constr] Help - cut and paste

[Riaan B. <riaan@e.co.za>]

Hi Aleksandras,

"Aleksandras G." wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> (crossposting to wx-dev, as it might well be relevant)
> 
> Riaan Booysen wrote:
> >> Would be really useful if boa allowed you to cut text from the help files
> >> and then paste into my code. The new help documentation is first class but
> >> frustrating that cut & paste seems to be disabled.
> >>....
> >..
> > Copy/paste is not disabled, it has not been implemented (yet?) for
> > wxHtmlWindow. As you can imagine it would be a non trivial task.
> >
> 
> Yes, there is none. The author of wxHtml (Vaclav Slavik) has designed it as
> a viewer primarily, whereas cursor/selection more less would requires a
> sophistication of an editor (eventhough intuitively it seams simple to add).
> But the _early_ news is, that for the past few weeks (at my very limited spare time)
> I've been implementing wxHtmlEditor component based on wxHtml.
> An important  part of this effort are the improvements made to original wxHtml
> sources to support cursor movement and selections (with cut/paste) for the read-only
> content. As for progress, among other things, a basic cursor movement and text selection
> (without cut/paste) are implemented.
> 
> So I'm letting you interested people know that possibly, the feature you are expecting
> might land into wxWin-cvs within a month or so.

Brilliant! I'm really looking forward to this! Boa thanks you!

Feature request: When doing a Search or Find with the help controller
it would be great if the wxHtmlWindow could select all occurences
of the search string and the have facility jump to the matches 
(like anchors)

> 
> Regards,
> Aleks.
> 
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