Easy way to access the Cursor of a TextEdit widget ?

[the-drunk-coder]

Hi,

not sure if this is the right place to ask but I couldn't find anything anywhere else ...

I started digging my way into the TextEdit example, and it works more or less as expected, but I can't find any (obvious) way to access the Cursor/State of the TextEdit widget ... is there one that I'm missing ?

[alvinhochun]

I afraid this state is not currently exposed in the public API, at least there is none that I can see. I don't know if it really makes sense to expose it either, because in my point of view this doesn't really fit the immediate-mode paradigm.

[the-drunk-coder]

Hmm not sure about the paradigm, but if I want to create a more sophisticated text editor based on conrod to embed in my application, I'd pretty much need access to the selected text, cursor positions etc.

[alvinhochun]

If you are making something like a sophisticated text editor, the built-in TextEdit widget in its current state most certainly wouldn't work well for the job at all, for multiple reasons...

[the-drunk-coder]

Well ... there's probably several stages between simple displaying of text and an emacs-level of sophistication.

What I'm looking for right now is a simple widget that I can integrate into an application, that allows me to select text and access the current selection and do something with it. But if that's not what the builtin widget can provide right now, good to know.

[alvinhochun]

If you insist on using Conrod for this, I can only suggest copying the source of TextEdit into your project and modify it, or make a fork.

I don't know if this is something that can or should be implemented in Conrod, but I believe it will at least require some design changes.