TCustomEdit.SelLength property
The number of currently selected UTF-8-encoded characters in the control.
Declaration
property SelLength: Integer read GetSelLength write SetSelLength;Description
SelLength is an
Integer property which contains the
number of UTF-8-encoded characters currently selected in the edit box for the
control. The current selection is the value in
Text starting at
the ordinal position in
SelStart and continuing for the number of
characters in the property.
The value for the property is read from the widgetset class when a handle has been allocated for the control. Otherwise, the internal member is read get the value for the property. Setting a new value for the property notifies the widgetset class when a handle has been allocated for the control.
Use SelStart to set the zero-based position in Text for the first
UTF-8-encoded character in the current text selection.
Use SelText to examine the values selected in the control, or to
replace the value in the current text selection. ClearSelection
can be used to remove the characters in the current text selection for the
control.
Use SelectAll to make all values in Text the current text
selection in the control.
Use HideSelection to un-select the current text selection in the
control.
See also
An experiment, built from development snapshots. Not the official Free Pascal or Lazarus documentation.