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by robustrory
Tue Jan 29, 2019 8:11 am
Forum: Help Me
Topic: Get Currently Selected / Highlghted Text
Replies: 4
Views: 4817

Re: Get Currently Selected / Highlghted Text

Hey Kukurykus , thanks for the response. I am on windows.
i noticed there was the "commit" phase for text changes, as well.

When you say:
Only way to do what you want is to involve external application
is this a standard practice for plugin authors?
by robustrory
Fri Jan 18, 2019 7:44 am
Forum: Help Me
Topic: Get Currently Selected / Highlghted Text
Replies: 4
Views: 4817

Re: Get Currently Selected / Highlghted Text

From the lack of responses and also through my own investigation, I'm thinking this is not possible. Using the script listener, I see that the changes to the TextItem's From and To properties are passed raw values, not fetched by using an ActionDescriptor: var idFrom = charIDToTypeID( "From&quo...
by robustrory
Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:06 am
Forum: Help Me
Topic: Get Currently Selected / Highlghted Text
Replies: 4
Views: 4817

Get Currently Selected / Highlghted Text

Hey there, I've been wandering around the barren land of documentation for a while now, thought I'd try my hand at asking for help. I'm trying to get the selected / highlighted text when using the text tool. I've stumbled across / figured out a lot of the other aspects i need, but I haven't yet figu...