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UnholySalmon
UnholySalmon

Reputation: 77

Eclipse text editor get caret position

As one component of a project I have a table with a list of variables from the current class in scope of the eclipse text editor. I want to be able to double click a position in this table and have the contents printed to the screen for me using a JavaRobot. Everything is set but of course when I click the table, the text editor caret position disappears as the foreground job is the table. Is there a way to find out the caret position so then I know where it was and thus print the contents into the desired location?

I have seen it done with textPanes:

int currentCaretPosition = textPane.getCaretPosition();

Figure 1

On the left is an example table when I click it the cursor/caret position disappears.

Figure 2

Need to get the cursor position and save it so I can print to this location using JavaRobot when a user double clicks a column/row.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 712

Answers (1)

UnholySalmon
UnholySalmon

Reputation: 77

Thanks guys, using SWT is what I needed :)

Here is the code for future reference:

CurrentDisplay display = new CurrentDisplay();
Display previousDisplay =display.getDisplay();
Point caretPoisition = previousDisplay.getCursorLocation();

Upvotes: 0

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