I want my application to detect whatever has been typed applications like text edit or text area of any other applications.
I am using Mac.
Thanks,
Rahul
This is accessible from the text view's -textStorage, which is a subclass of NSMutableAttributedString/NSAttributedString. You can get the attributes (including font) for a given range. Expanding on that, you can ask the text view for it's typing attributes, which are the same thing NSAttributedString uses.
That said, the only way to get this reliably from other applications is to use input managers or an unsavory code injection a la ApplicationEnhancer.
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We are all familiar with text highlighting. You hover over any "text" in any application on your Windows OS, your cursor changes into an I-Beam, and you can click and drag across the text to Highlight it. This highlighted text can be copied to the clipboard for later use.
Some applications modify the default highlighting behavior by changing color, opacity, or even shape. Some applications allow for column selection (e.g. Visual Studio "alt-click-drag" creates box like highlighting)
I have scoured the depths of the internet, but I can't seem to find a solid source of information that would explain how one would modify the behavior of text highlighting.
How would I implement column/block text selection, and modifying the appearance of the highlighted text in a compiled application.
Since applications can do this in various custom ways, there is no single solution to change how all of them style text selections.
Many will rely on the current color scheme (using GetSysColor) to determine the highlight colors. So you could modify the scheme and maybe affect the colors used for many applications.
To do this programmatically, you would use SetSysColors to change the COLOR_HIGHLIGHT and COLOR_HIGHLIGHTTEXT values.
Other applications might rely on the current theme (using GetThemeColor). To affect those you'd have to select a different theme that has the colors (and perhaps other styling choices) that you want.
A lot of apps use their own hard-coded color schemes, so you won't be able to programmatically at all.
I'm not sure what you mean with the web application part of your question. A web application is some HTML, JS and CSS that make the browser interact with your system. Any custom selection (coloring) logic that the web application provides, has to be implemented by the browser.
Also you have to realize that "(text) selection" is an rather virtual principle. An application can just render a colored shape (like a blue rectangle) and copy something to the clipboard when it receives a WM_COPY message.
Windows provides in basic substring selection functionality for (rich) edit controls (i.e. start and end position), but for something custom like column selection, custom code is required.
Read more about this in Making a rectangular selection in a RichTextBox with Alt-Left-Mouse sweep?.
I want to create an e-book reader app, I have tried to use the control RichTextBox to display the content of a chapter in a book, while, it could not display the entire chapter, finally, I am told that the size of any control in windows phone is less then 2048px, and this causes the text located after 2048px (Height) in the RichTextBox could not be displayed. So, I need to find another one control to do such a thing. Is there any suggestion?
Further more, I want the control may meet the following requirements:
it could customize the fontsize, forecolor of the text displayed in it (this may be the simplest one)
it could customize the background pic.
it allow the user to select the text on it freely for copy (this is the most important one of the 3)
Since an ebook is fundamentally a set of HTML pages, you should display your pages using a web control.
By the way, customizing font size etc. is not by any means trivial, because you end up trying to figure out whether or not and how to override CSS rules in the book.
You might want to check out http://openbookreader.codeplex.com/, although it seems to have been inactive for a couple of years.
I feel strange asking a question about what's probably the simplest page in my iPhone app but here it is anyway:
I have a controller that a user can invoke to display the rules of the game and some acknowledgment information. I set up a Text View object filling up the whole page in Interface Builder and am wondering what's the best way of entering the text I need.
I can do all of this in the m file but entering large text sections in a programming language is never fun.
I can also simply overwrite the default "Lorem ipsum dolor..." text in Interface Builder but then my return characters don't seem to be taken into account when I run the app.
Is there a better way to fill my Text View with my own formatted text? And how can I format my text neatly and easily (i.e. make titles in bold, underline some words, etc.)?
Thanks.
There is no way to easily display formatted text in a UITextView. The best approach for this kind of problem is to use a UIWebView and store the text as an HTML file.
Use the NSTextStorage class to store the formatted text in your NSTextView.
Use Core Text
Core Text Tutorial for iOS: Making a Magazine App
I feel kind of silly asking this question as it seems really simple, but how do I create a text box that I can type in instructions and stuff like that. I don't need the user to be able to change it, it is just to give instructions. I tried the label, but it only allows one line. I need something that can allow about a paragraph or so. Similar to the box in an installer that describes what the program does. What did I miss?
You can use a label but set its AutoSize property to false. This allows you to size the label as you wish and it will automatically wrap the text to fit.
You can also anchor the label to the parent form to have it automatically resize and reflow the text if the user resizes the parent form.
You want a text box, but set its Read Only property to TRUE, and maybe Enabled to FALSE
I would like to know what should I do with GUI layout under WinAPI/MFC.
In the ideal world I should just create the form/dialog via resource editor, and everything should just work. In the real world the dialog editor is ancient behemoth from the ice-age and doesn't support most of the comctl32 controls.
This is where the problem creeps up. Dialog editor uses DLU units, and when I create new controls at runtime, I have to express them in pixel offsets.
I stumbled upon one article about calculating DLUs based on font http://support.microsoft.com/kb/145994/en-us, but also saw a warning somewhere that dialogs can have non system fonts in some circumstances, so this approach is not very safe. Plus the article seems to look only at English characters, without regard to all other characters in unicode space which might be wider?.
Has anyone done a research in this direction and found a better way?
P.S.: No Winforms/WPF/Delphi, requirements.
the dialog editor is ancient behemoth from the ice-age and doesn't support most of the comctl32 controls
It doesn't need to support the controls directly, you can still use it just for positioning by inserting it as a custom control and filling in the window class in the property page. For example, that's how I insert link controls in VS2005: as a custom control with class "SysLink".
MapDialogRect (mentioned in the article) is the function that Windows uses to translate the dialog units in the dialog resource to pixel units. MapDialogRect works (where GetDlgBaseUnits fails) because its given an actual handle to the dialog box, and can send it a WM_GETFONT message to retrieve the actual font the dialog will be rendered with.