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IndexRange is just an encapsupation of two integer values. It does not have any live connection to the text area. Once you have an instance of IndexRange, its start and end indices never change. Does that answer your question? Maybe provide a code sample.

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Hi Tomas, yes it answers. The use case I am trying to solve is this:

-User writes a string, for example: "John is a student in the school"

-User applies color (Red) to a word, for example: "student".

-User (or code) replaces the work "student" with a "Researcher".

Since "Researcher" is a longer word, I am trying to make sure that the Red
style gets ported to "Researcher". I also want to make sure that the
string "in the school" does not get overwritten, I just want it to be
pushed.

So I am trying to design a TextRange class, which can handle these changes.
If you have any tips on what direction to take please let me know.
Thanks :)
maher

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:12 AM, TomasMikula [email protected]:

Closed #18 #18.

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"in the school" does not get overwritten, no worries about that.

When you insert plain text, the style of the character immediately preceding the insertion position is used for the inserted text. In your example, the word "researcher" will have the same style as the white space before it.

I think this behavior makes sense when you are just inserting text without replacing anything. When replacing text, it would maybe make more sense to use the style of the first or last character of the replaced text, what do you think? What do rich-text editors do in this case?

For more control, there could be a settable property on code area that would override the style of inserted text. When set to null, the default behavior described above would be used.

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Thanks this is really helpful information.

From my understanding (just tried it on WordPad), the newly entered text
will inherit the style of the character preceding it. This makes sense.

I'l give this a shot as soon as I am done with the initial plumbing of the
code!

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:28 AM, TomasMikula [email protected]:

"in the school" does not get overwritten, no worries about that.

When you insert plain text, the style of the character immediately
preceding the insertion position is used for the inserted text. In your
example, the word "researcher" will have the same style as the white space
before it.

I think this behavior makes sense when you are just inserting text without
replacing anything. When replacing text, it would maybe make more sense to
use the style of the first or last character of the replaced text, what do
you think? What do rich-text editors do in this case?

For more control, there could be a settable property on code area that
would override the style of inserted text. When set to null, the default
behavior described above would be used.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com//issues/18#issuecomment-36534649
.

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