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Chapter 2 - Control Manager Reference / Control Manager Types and Constants

The Editable Text Selection Structure

NEW WITH THE APPEARANCE MANAGER

You can pass a pointer to the editable text selection structure to GetControlData and SetControlData to access and set the current selection range in an editable text control.

An editable text selection structure is of type ControlEditTextSelectionRec:

struct ControlEditTextSelectionRec {
   SInt16               selStart;
   SInt16               selEnd;
};
typedef struct ControlEditTextSelectionRec ControlEditTextSelectionRec;
typedef ControlEditTextSelectionRec *ControlEditTextSelectionPtr;

Field Description

selStart

A signed 16-bit integer indicating the beginning of the editable text selection.

selEnd

A signed 16-bit integer indicating the end of the editable text selection.