Text Viewer: _getInfo

Text Viewer: _getInfo

Returns information about where the user clicked in the viewer

Syntax
Details
Example

Syntax

CALL NOTIFY (viewer-name, '_getInfo', row, col<, text<, text-len><, word><, word-len><, hotspot>>);

Argument Type Description

row
N returns the number of the selected row within the file

col
N returns the number of the selected column within the file

text
C returns the entire line of selected text

text-len
N returns the length of the selected line of text

word
C returns the word selected

word-len
N returns the length of the selected word

hotspot
C returns the name of the registered hotspot clicked on

Argument	Type	Description
row	N	returns the number of the selected row within the file
col	N	returns the number of the selected column within the file
text	C	returns the entire line of selected text
text-len	N	returns the length of the selected line of text
word	C	returns the word selected
word-len	N	returns the length of the selected word
hotspot	C	returns the name of the registered hotspot clicked on

Details

By default the returned word is the space-delimited text clicked on. To control what delimiter is used to return the word, see the _setDelimiters method for this class.

Example

_getInfo returns information about the location of the user's click:

call notify('textview', '_get_info_',
             row, col, text,
             textl, word, wordl);

In this example, the variables contain these values:

ROW=3

COL=2

TEXT='Third row of text'

TEXTL = 17

WORD = 'Third'

WORDL = 5

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	ROW=3
	COL=2
	TEXT='Third row of text'
	TEXTL = 17
	WORD = 'Third'
	WORDL = 5