SelectedTextLength property for PowerScript controls

Controls

RichTextEdit controls

Description

The SelectedTextLength property specifies the length of text
you want to highlight in a selected text string.

Usage

Typically you use this property to obtain the length of a
misspelled word that is flagged after passing the selected text
string to a supported ActiveX spell checking control.

See the chapter on implementing rich text in Application
Techniques for more information about spell checking
text in RichTextEdit controls.

In a painter

The SelectedTextLength property cannot be set in a design-time
painter.

In scripts

The SelectedTextLength property takes a long value. The following
code in a MixedCaseWord or ReplaceWord event for the Wintertree
Software WSpell ActiveX control causes a word flagged by the control
to be highlighted for its entire length, beginning with the word’s
offset position in the text string that you are spell checking:

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