Cursor movement

thajuggla · Post by **thajuggla** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:43 pm

How do I move the cursor from one position to another position in the TrichviewEdit?

I am trying to move my cursor to position 80 on the line, but am unable to find out how to do this.

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:52 pm

How do you want to define the position where to move the caret?

thajuggla · Post by **thajuggla** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:23 pm

Sergey Tkachenko wrote:How do you want to define the position where to move the caret?

Yes, I believe so

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:46 pm

I just asked where do you want to move the caret.

You said, for example, to the position 80 on the line. It is possible, but not very trivial. But there may be simpler methods, I can try to help if you tell me what do you want to implement.

thajuggla · Post by **thajuggla** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:52 pm

I am simply wanting to move my caret position to position 80 on the line. I am not seeing any option to "MoveCaret" to a position in TRichView.

Thanks for the help

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:55 pm

What if there are less than 80 characters on the current line?

thajuggla · Post by **thajuggla** » Tue May 20, 2008 10:59 pm

Sergey Tkachenko wrote:What if there are less than 80 characters on the current line?

I am populating the box. I have one bit of information that I know can be a maximum of 50 characters, and a minimum of 5 characters, or in between. After I write this bit of information, I want to move to position 80 to write my second bit of information.

Pieter Zijlstra · Post by **Pieter Zijlstra** » Wed May 21, 2008 12:33 am

Have you considered using tabstops?

thajuggla · Post by **thajuggla** » Wed May 21, 2008 12:48 am

Pieter Zijlstra wrote:Have you considered using tabstops?

No I did not. However I look at the help, and I really do not understand the help for the tab info section.

Would I have to design a specific paragraph style with a tab stop, then apply it to the whole line?

Post by **Sergey Tkachenko** » Wed May 21, 2008 4:36 am

If I understand you, you want to arrange data in columns.
Yes, the best way to do it is either tabs or tables.
For tabs, see here: http://www.trichview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1589

thajuggla · Post by **thajuggla** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:11 am

Sergey Tkachenko wrote:If I understand you, you want to arrange data in columns.
Yes, the best way to do it is either tabs or tables.
For tabs, see here: http://www.trichview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1589

This is it!! Thank you very much