When you place a connector down there is a drag-point pre-set in the middle of its length. When you apply text to the connector (by selecting the connector and just starting to type) the text label is set to the mid-point on the connector.
When the label and the midpoint coincide, visio prioritises selection of the mid-point over the drag handle for the text.
Is there any way to force prioritisation (through simultaneous key press, for example) to the text drag handle? In this scenario you have to contort your connector to shift the mid point (or any connector drag-point) away from the text to allow selection of the text drag handle.
thanks.
Try use command Text block for make these changes
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I have a table cell of fixed large size, and in it is nothing but a Plain Text Content Control, whose default placeholder text "Click here to enter text" takes up only a small portion of that table cell.
The problem is that if the user clicks anywhere in the cell but outside of the control's placeholder text, then starts typing, the entered text will not be part of the control and will not be subject to the control's style or any other control properties.
So - other than adding a lot of dummy characters to the placeholder text, which doesn't seem to be predictable in its word-wrap behavior, is there a way to make the control's placeholder text (or, in general, its click-boundary) fill the entire table cell?
UPDATE actually there were some carriage returns after the control that I was not aware of; after deleting those, clicking anywhere in the cell as long as the x coordinate if the click is greater than or equal to the leftmost x coordinate of the control will edit the control text value as desired. If you click leftward of the control, you will end up editing whatever fixed text exists to the left of the control, i.e. a fixed text label. Still strange. The workaround here was to split cells for all multi line text entry areas, such that the label is on its own cell, and the control is now at the leftmost edge of its cell.
Content controls do not support something like expanding to the surrounding container. They will always use only the space that is required to render their content.
If you want to prevent users from clicking and typing text outside of the control, you could use the following approach:
Put a rich text content control around your table/table row/cell
Put the plain text content control as a nested content control in the table cell (the plain text content control must be non-vanishing for this to work)
Make the outer content control read-only
Now the only thing the user is allowed to edit is the inner plain text content control. The downside of this approach is that your document now contains areas that are locked. This has an impact on usability, first, because, it may not be obvious to the user why certain areas cannot be modified, and second, because a lot of standard actions do no longer work if part of the selection is locked (e.g. Select All > Update ToC).
I want to structure a very long label of a connector (to be more precise: guard of a transition in a state diagram) by inserting line breaks. Line breaks appear when I change the width of the label but I want to control the position of the line breaks.
In an element, e.g. a "state", I can click twice on the name and then I can edit the name and insert line breaks with Ctrl+Enter. But that doesn't work for connectors.
I'm using Enterprise Architect 10
No that is not possible.
If you want to request that feature you can send a feature request to Sparx Systems
It is possible using nonbreaking space. Use nonbreaking space instead of regular space and use regular space instead of line break.
There isn't a shortcut for a nonbreaking space character so copy it from a text editor.
Any one know how i can create a text area which displays lines of text which can not be edited but allows you to edit the bottom most line for text.
basically in a similar fashion to embedded consoles inside applications that allow you to run code direct on the application.
currently using a textview i can go and edit the code above and the output response are also editable.
It's possible using a GtkTextView, but not trivial. You have to create a tag that makes the text uneditable, and apply it from the beginning of the buffer to just before the end position. Then when you receive and process input, extend or re-apply the tag to cover that line of input and your program's response to it.
Here's an example of it being done:
creating the tag
applying the tag
I have an editor that extends a TextEditor class. I would like to know if it is possible to read the text at the cursor position within the editor.
Using ITextSelection is not useful since it expects that some text string is selected. I require to read text when the cursor is at some point and no text is selected.
Thanks.
ITextViewer.getSelectedRange(). It will return the offset and the size of the selection. Offset is the caret position and size may be 0. To read the text, use ITextViewer.getDocument().get() and analyze the contents at the respective offset.
This is not an Eclipse-programming question, but rather a question about the Eclipse user-interface in general.
I am writing a verilog source-code in an Eclipse text-editor using the simplifIDE plug-in. I want to align my code so that variable names always start at offset 33 (32 spaces from the left margin)
Does Eclipse have an option for displaying the current cursor position in a status bar? I'd even be happy with a keyboard shortcut that would pop the current cursor-position up in an dialog.
In the absence of a solution, I'll set my tabs to 4-spaces, and put the following text at random places in my file:
//..5...9...13..17..21..25..29..33..37..41..45..49..53..57..61..65..69..73..77..81..
Some editors (such as the built in Java editor) display the current insertion point location in the status bar. However, if you use a third-party editor sch as SimplifIDE, you may have to check its own configuration for that option.
If you write your own editor, you could ask the editor to give you the selection provider, as the selection provider can also provide the current insertion point location.
Using Eclipse 3.5 with the SimplifIDE plugin, I am seeing the correct information for the line and column on a status bar on the bottom of the screen with a {line : column} format using either tabs or spaces.
thedeserthorizon, Are you using 3.5 and the version 1.0.26 of Simplifide.
There is a new API in 3.5 which allows you to listen to cursor movements (see this bug). Then, you can ask for the index of the first character in the current line and subtract that from the absolute cursor position. This gives you the offset in characters.
This is not accurate though; if your editor supports real tabs, then you must query the editor for the current line and count characters yourself (where the tab counts as 2..8 character positions).