Rich Text Object - Cursor location, size, blink rate, etc.

[ratty]

1.) How can these things be altered? I'm trying to make them dynamic, based on user input. If I could just track the cursor location i could have an object follow it. Altering it's width would be ideal, though.

2.) Is there a way to alter the highlight color when you are selecting text?

3.) Is it possible to select text word by word or up until a certain punctuation, such as periods, so you can select each coming sentence one at a time?

4.) How the heck can I save the cursor position?

[LB]

1. The size of the cursor can be changes in two ways: change the height via changing the font size, change the width via your system's control panel. The blink rate can only be changed via your system's control panel. The cursor location is given/set by character index, not any kind of X/Y location. You'd have to calculate the X/Y position yourself. The REO is not meant for this kind of stuff.

2. Through your system's control panel.

3. Hold shift (the selection key) and hold control (the word key) and press the arrow keys.

4. Store it in an alterable or global value??

[danworth]

If you're after something similar to the features offered in decent text editors such as Notepad++ you wont be able to do that with the richtext object. IIRC The scintilla object had advanced options not sure if it'll do what you need though.

[LB]

The Scintilla object is the same thing that Notepad++ uses. (They use the same library)