Moving carets

wardrobeandrew · Jul 2, 2003

hi first time writting tread here pretty new to dotnet any way i was wondering a if any of you can can help me i writting and html/xml code editor, along with other things, which can let me put closing and ending tags by using keyboard short cuts and i got it all figured out and working but i would like to move the caret automatically in between the end of one tag and the start of of another for instance i want the caret bar where the "X" is in this exmaple <html>X</html>

if possible in vb.net or c++.net

if anyone can help it would be much appreciated

secondly is C# worth learning?

cheers
ps. i apologise for any bad spelling

wardrobeandrew · Jul 2, 2003

oh yeah if you dont know what i mean by the caret, i mean the little bar that apers in text editors

and selection.moveleft units:=

doesnt work like it does in VBA

dynamic_sysop · Jul 2, 2003

Code:

    Private Sub Button4_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click
        If InStr(TextBox1.Text, "<html>") Then
            Dim iPos As Integer = InStr(TextBox1.Text, "<html>", CompareMethod.Text)
            TextBox1.SelectionStart = iPos + 5
            TextBox1.SelectedText = ("some text after the <html> tag!")
            TextBox1.SelectionStart = Len(TextBox1.Text)
        End If
    End Sub

you can use TextBox1.ScrollToCaret() , but SelectionStart is better in that case

wardrobeandrew · Jul 3, 2003

Thats not quite what i meant i should have explained better the function i wrote adds both <html> and </html> to the text of thr text box i would like know how to automatic position the caret in between the <html> tag and the </html> tag

but cheers anyway dude

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