Inserting text into a text box

[glitch13]

I have a small project im working on and i cant seem to figure out one thing, how do i insert text AT THE CURSOR into a text box.

simple example:

lets say i have a text box that reads:

"Hello, welcome to my program!"

and the cursor is right betwteen the word Hello and the comma, and i want a button that will insert text at the cursor (such as a name in this instance).

i know it will involve breaking the text box contents into a string before the cursor point and a string after the cursor point then sticking a string in between and cancatonating it all together but i cant figure out how to get the cursor position.

any help would be appreiciated, thanks in advance'

-glitch13

[kedaman]

'to insert text at the cursor position
text1.seltext = text1.seltext & "some text here"
'to get the cursor position
debug.print text1.selstart

[glitch13]

havent been able to try it yet, but even though you dont have all the text up to the cursor selected, VB still sees all the text before the cursor as selected text?

[kedaman]

It automatically deselects if you use seltext

[glitch13]

sorry, i misstyped, i meant

even thought you DON'T have all of the text up to the cursor selected it still sees all of the text up to the cursor as selected text?

if you misanswered the first time, let me reiterate:

pretend that the "|" is the cursor, i want the following:


"Hello|, welcome to my program!"

to read:

"Hello John, welcome to my program"

(not the mouse cursor, the text edit cursor)

[Edited by glitch13 on 11-11-2000 at 07:33 PM]

[kedaman]

That's exactly what it should do, go try it for yourself