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text cursor position

Hi,

I need to get the text cursor position in a richedit Control, ie I want my
ContextMenu to appear exactly where the user is typing text,
Thanks
Nov 16 '05 #1
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Hi Ilann,

Look at the RichTextBox.GetPositionFromCharIndex method. The character
index (where the caret is) you can get from RichTextBox.SelectionStart
property

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HTH
Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]
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Hi,

I need to get the text cursor position in a richedit Control, ie I want my
ContextMenu to appear exactly where the user is typing text,
Thanks

Nov 16 '05 #2

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