RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Textfield method

[Moore, L. <Lar...@tf...>]

Simple,

Beautiful,

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Aldo Calpini [mailto:da...@pe...]
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:51 AM
To: Moore, Larry
Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Textfield method


Moore, Larry wrote:
> I would like to assign the highlighted portion of a textfield to
> $var. I have the Textfield created with stuff in it but I don't
> see a method which will let me make the assignment.

there is a Selection method that returns the start and end of
the selection. then you just make a substr on the Textfield
content:

    ($from, $to) = $Textfield->Selection();
    $var = substr($Textfield->Text, $from, $to-$from);

    
cheers,
Aldo

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