Prevent tab brom selecting text

[Mikeman27294]

Hello everyone.

I have been working with a rich editbox. I have indents working well, the only problem being that once I have indented, it selects the text. I know that if I set it not to sleep, then it wil not select the text, the problem then being that it just continues to insert indents. Here is the code for the indent function.

Func _Indent()
    _GUICtrlRichEdit_InsertText($Richedit, "    ")
    Sleep(500)
    Do
        _GUICtrlRichEdit_InsertText($Richedit, "    ")
        Sleep(100)
    Until Not _IsPressed(09)
EndFunc

I am calling this function using This code in a while loop in my main function.

Case _IsPressed("09")
    _Indent()

This is the code that I am using for my GUI and rich editbox.

GUICreate("", @DesktopWidth*0.75, @DesktopHeight*0.75, @DesktopWidth*0.125, @DesktopHeight*0.125, 0x010F0000)

And

$CodeDialog = _GUICtrlRichEdit_Create($hGUI, "", 2, 2, $DialogWidth, $DialogHeight, 0x0044)

Anybody know anything that can be done to prevent it from selecting the text inside the rich editbox?

Thanks.

EDIT

I just found the command _GUICtrlRichEdit_Deselect and I implemented that into my script more times than should be nessecary... but that hasnt worked.

_GUICtrlRichEdit_InsertText($CodeDialog, "  ")
Sleep(10)
_GUICtrlRichEdit_Deselect($CodeDialog)
Sleep(500)
_GUICtrlRichEdit_Deselect($CodeDialog)

See? more times than nessecary... but that hasnt helped at all.

Edited July 3, 2011 by Mikeman27294

[Mikeman27294]

Anybody got any ideas?

[martin]

Anybody got any ideas?

You are a bit impatient, especially since it's Sunday (for me anyway)

Why do you want to insert a variable number of tabs? It would be easier to insert only one for each key press. So

Func _Indent()
    _GUICtrlRichEdit_InsertText($Richedit, "    ")

    Do
        Sleep(50)
    Until Not _IsPressed(09)
EndFunc

As far as the highlighting problem goes I would need as small working example to show the issue, but if you don't want any of the text selected could you just have SetSel with the end the same as the start?

Edited July 3, 2011 by martin

[Mikeman27294]

Thanks. Yeah, I was a little impatient. It is basically going to be part of a larger application, but this part being similar to notepad. But thanks for that idea... I will take a look after I have done my assessment due tomorrow (I shouldnt have left it so late lol).

[Mikeman27294]

No ideas?;

[Mikeman27294]

Guess not. Anybody know how to edit the title? I'm sure I have seen it done before.