TextEditing

The Text Editing samples illustrate how to use the Text Editing framework to enable users to edit text data. For information on basic text operations, see Text. The following paragraphs briefly describe each Text Editing sample.

SimpleTextAndMenus

SimpleTextAndMenus illustrates one mechanism you can use to allow users to edit text, using TSimpleTextStore and TSimpleTextView. These classes are independent of the Document framework, and thus lightweight and easier to manage. They support standard user interface operations such as typing, deleting, selecting, and drag and drop. However, since this technique does not use the Document framework, it does not automatically provide users with additional features they may expect, such as undo, or copy and paste. This example also illustrates use of the standard menu utility class TTextMenu.

PresFrmwkText

PresFrmwkText illustrates how to use TTextModel and TTextPresenterState with the Compound Document and Presentation frameworks to provide more features than are available with simple text. It subclasses TDocumentComponentStationery to provide a stationery class that uses TTextModel and a custom subclass of TTextPresenterState. A script that invokes RunDocument is provided as well.

CustomTextCommand

CustomTextCommand shows you how to write a subclass of a text command, in this case TReplaceTextCommand, and put your command into a menu. It overrides TReplaceTextCommand::HandleDoBegin to compute replacement text for the currently selected text. It also illustrates one way to use TTextChunkIterator.

CustomTextTool

CustomTextTool shows you how to write a text tool and interactor, and to use menus and the Cursor Tools framework to use this new tool. The tool here is closely modeled on the EditableText class TSimpleTextTool.

CustomTextSelector

CustomTextSelector shows how to write a text selection interactor and have a subclass of TTextView use that interactor. The interactor here is very different from TSelectTextInteractor, but uses the same utility classes to perform its work.

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