> Hi, Mark.
> Mark Williams wrote:
> > I am trying to detect not the text, but the text attributes under the
mouse
> > cursor in a TRichEdit.
> > I assume that this is possible, but I cannot find any method in Delphi
or in
> > the API that seems to do this.
> > At the moment I am using a cheat by having a second and hidden
TRichEdit.
> > First I detect the position of the text under the cursor then I copy the
> > whole of the text to the hidden richedit and then I move the cursor in
the
> > hidden richedit accordingly. In this way, I can detect the text
attributes
> > of the second richedit. This seems to work well enough and is very fast
> > even in large text documents. But it seems to me to be a lot of work
for
> > something that should really be quite simple.
> > I am trying to achieve the same effect as the cursor passing over a
> > hypertext link as you see in various wordprocessing packages.
> I just happened to be working on a similar problem over the last several
> days and I think I have a better way, at least if you are using RE 2.0.
> The Text Object Model (TOM) OLE interfaces are supported by Rich Edit
> 2.0+. They include methods that, if they are actually implemented in RE
> controls should provide a way to get the formatting of text in an
> arbitrary location. (Note, some interface methods are not implemented,
> but the only way I know to find out is to code it and try it.) They
> also include methods that allow you to track the current location of a
> range of text, say, the hyperlinks, while the user is editing the text.
> See Microsoft's developer site for TOM information. See
> http://home.att.net/~robertdunn/Yacs.html for information on getting the
> RE 3.0 DLL and RE controls generally.
> HTH.
> robert
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