Set Cursor Position on Editbox still not possible?

[doctorzeus]

Hello,

As you can probubly guess from the thread title I am wondering if it is possible to set the position of the cursor in the editbox without editing the source and compiling it or extending the class (which I am now having a go at)?

I saw this thread (http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum// ... 926#156926) and it was back in 2008 so I was wondering if anything has changed in this regard?

Many Thanks

DoctorZeus

[doctorzeus]

Also I saw via the thread that apparently this was possible via a project IrrExt which extended irrlicht.

However their last update was on 2013-04-02 and there are no files in the sourceforge folders so assuming it is dead or moved..?

[CuteAlien]

Sorry, not possible. Corresponding feature-wish thread is here: http://sourceforge.net/p/irrlicht/feature-requests/116/
But depending on the situation you can work around and send keyboard-events to the editbox.

IrrEdit is a proprietary scene editor from the original Irrlicht programmer. Or maybe you mean something else.

[doctorzeus]

Sorry, not possible. Corresponding feature-wish thread is here: http://sourceforge.net/p/irrlicht/feature-requests/116/
But depending on the situation you can work around and send keyboard-events to the editbox.

IrrEdit is a proprietary scene editor from the original Irrlicht programmer. Or maybe you mean something else.

Ah right, well will be waiting for a bit by the looks of things then..

Yes sorry (will edit if possible), I mean IrrExt..

Thanks

DoctorZeus

[doctorzeus]

Ok well I sucessfully edited the code with this feature, although a fairly simple implementation there is a way of doing it on the thread, however here is a re-post for anyone looking at this later (all credit for this code to Acki from this http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/forum// ... 926#156926 thread).

in "include\IGUIEditBox.h" add to the public part:

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//! Sets the position of the cursor.
//! \param pos New cursor position.
virtual void setCursorPos(int pos)=0;
//! Returns the curent position of the cursor.
virtual int getCursorPos()=0;

in "CGUIEditBox.h" add to the public part:

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virtual void setCursorPos(int pos);
virtual int getCursorPos();

and finaly in "CGUIEditBox.cpp" add:

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void CGUIEditBox::setCursorPos(int pos){
  CursorPos = pos;
  if(CursorPos < 0) CursorPos = 0;
  if((u32)CursorPos > Text.size()) CursorPos = Text.size();
  BlinkStartTime = os::Timer::getTime();
}
int CGUIEditBox::getCursorPos(){
  return CursorPos;
}

There are quite a few features that could be added to the editbox such as text alignment that could be added to the editbox, will be recomending that they be added to the next release.

DoctorZeus

[CuteAlien]

OK, just be aware that it's wrong when you have multi-line editboxes. I think it might work for single-line edit-boxes (no guarantee). To really understand I fear you have to read the source about how line-breaking is done inside the editbox (which is the part which needs a big rewrite - not just in the editbox and the reason why we have no getCursor/setCursor so far). But basically it's because text.length and cursorpos are not the same once newlines come into play.