[comp.sys.mac.programmer] text selection

poleary@bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Petey O'Leary) (03/19/89)

I am currently working on the screen output routines for a terminal emulator
and was wondering if anyone had any advice and/or source on how to do
text selection with the mouse a la TextEdit.  Maybe someone on the net
can save me a lot of time...

Peter O'Leary

P.S.  Thanks to everyone who responded to my posting on terminal emulation
software.  Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
--
Peter O'Leary.
"Speak of the Devil and the Devil may speak of you." - W. Hussey

iron@imag.imag.fr (Francois Menneteau) (10/02/90)

  Under some old systems (I can't remember which), It was possible to select
word like *$00001234[5] or $4567:12 (I used in in my disassembler).

  Now (under system 6.0.5) it doesn't work anymore (only 00001234 or 4567 is
selected).

So is there a way to allow the old selection-style to function ?
I really need this feature...

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ml27192@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (10/06/90)

Probably the version of ttxt you use under the old system just used spaces as   delimiters, and the new version uses the toolbox's word-definition functions.
So you wouldn't be able to change it without serious hacking. I would just 
get the older version back.