Get notified when cursor position changed in Eclipse TextEditor - eclipse

I am developing a plugin to eclipse and I want to add some actions to the context menu. But actually I wanted to prepare results beforehead according to the text selection in the editor and just show them when the menu item will be selected.
I followed that article http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-WorkbenchSelections/article.html - all interfaces (ISelectionListener, ISelectionChangedListener etc) allow to handle the SelectionChanged event, but editor counts changing only when length of selection also changes - so the simple click in the editor doesn't fire the event, although I want to get the word (for example) as a selection if cursor is inside the word now and lenght is 0.
So the question is - what is the simpliest solution for traking down cursor position/offset/selections with zero lengh value changing?

In that case you have to use KeyListener and MouseListener as well. For e.g take a look at org.eclipse.jface.text.PaintManager, and it listens to all these events.

If you are extending TextEditor you can override handleCursorPositionChanged() method to fire your event and use getCursorPosition() to get the cursor position as a String.

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Get correct selection with VSCode extension when user navigates to new document

I have an extension that subscribes to window.onDidChangeActiveTextEditor. If Go to definition is used, the TextEditor received by onDidChangeActiveTextEditor will report a selection of 0,0. The "correct" selection is transported in a separate event (onDidChangeTextEditorSelection).
The onDidChangeActiveTextEditor event seems to originate from textFileEditors.ts:
textEditor.setModel(textFileModel.textEditorModel);
The selection is updated shortly afterwards:
// Apply options to editor if any
if (options) {
applyTextEditorOptions(options, textEditor, ScrollType.Immediate);
}
Even if flipped around, this has no impact, because the new selection is transported in an internal event that will not reach the code before the onDidChangeActiveTextEditor event is sent to the extension host.
Is there a way for an extension to know if the new editor is opened at 0,0 or another position without waiting to see if the selection is updated shortly after?
The events for opening a editor at (0,0) are:
didOpenTextDocument
didChangeActiveTextEditor
The events for opening an editor at any other position are:
didOpenTextDocument
didChangeActiveTextEditor (position is (0,0))
onDidChangeTextEditorSelection (position is the "correct" position)

Event.add for keypress does not work?

We are trying to use tinyMCE for one of our applications. We would like to attach some event handling to particular elements within tinyMCE. We've tried doing it using
Event.add(element, 'keypress', getTag);
Where element is the HTML element we are trying to attach the event to and getTag is the function we'd like called when the keypress event is fired. The particular element we are trying to attach to is a span element with some text in it. We'd like to capture when particular key combinations are entered(like ctrl - F10) between the span tags and popup a menu with options.
The options in the menu will vary depending on the particular span elements the combination is entered in. That's why we want to attach to particular elements instead of globally attaching to all span elements in the document(within tinyMCE). i.e The getTag function will behave differently, using closures, depending on where the combinations are entered.
The problem is when we attach to the particular elements and test them nothing happens for any 'keypress' events. If we try to attach to the span elements using a 'click' event everything works as expected. Once we revert back to using 'keypress' nothing happens again.
Using the debugging tools I've verified a couple of things. The event listeners are attached to the elements. It seems tinyMCE creates a toplevel keypress and click(along with others) to the document within tinyMCE. I'm guessing this is how Editor.onKeyPress().add() like functions work. When I debug the working scenorio using click I can see where the event is fired for both the document and span elements. While debugging the keypress event I only see the event fired for the document element, not the span element. I'm thinking that tinyMCE is suppressing the event, but I can't figure out how, and what needs to be done to stop it.
Use this handler eigther in one of you own plugins or using the tinymce config param setup
ed.onKeyDown.add(function onkeydown(ed, evt) {
var is_in_span = ed.selection.getNode().nodeName == 'SPAN';
// check for caret in SPAN and F10-Key
if (is_in_span && evt.keyCode == '121'){ // you may add other keyCodes here
// do whatever you like here
...
}
});

find out which gtk widget has the current selection

I have a collection of GtkEntry widgets, some of which are editable and focusable, and some of which are not. I would like to find out which, if any, of them currently has text selected, in order to implement an Edit->Copy menu item. Is there any way to do this other than iterating over all the widgets until gtk_editable_get_selection_bounds returns true?
I am currently sidestepping the issue by calling gtk_clipboard_get(GDK_SELECTION_PRIMARY) but from what the docs say, that's not portable (and will also pick up text selected anywhere within the current display, not just from within my application).
Have you tried gtk_window_get_focus ()? Users are frequently interacting with entries, so it may work for you. The documentation says that it "retrieves the current focused widget within the window." You can look it by yourself here. Then, compare if the widget retrieved is one of your entries.
Once you get the focused entry, perhaps you would like to get its text using gtk_entry_get_text () , though, it will get all the text in the entry. If this does not fit your purposes, the solution might be using gtk_editable_copy_clipboard () which copies the contents of the currently selected content in the editable (of course, cast the entry to editable) and puts it on the clipboard. Then if it applies, paste what was copied using gtk_editable_paste_clipboard ().

Hide cursor or have custom cursor in Windows 8 Metro

I want to know if there is a way to hide cursor in Windows 8 Metro mode. I found
this answer, but then I don't know how to obtain the
"unique resource id" for the second parameter of the cursor constructor (below).
Window.Current.CoreWindow.PointerCursor =
new Windows.UI.Core.CoreCursor(Windows.UI.Core.CoreCursorType.Custom, 1);
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I need to handle mouse events normally so the answer below of setting cursor to null will not suffice.
Set the cursor to a custom cursor but make it just be blank...this allows you to track it like being a normal cursor.
You can set the PointerCursor object to NULL. As soon as you move over something like a text box, it will reset it back though. So you probably need to handle mouse over events on various controls, to hide it. This all depends on your complete scenario tough.
Also, before setting it to NULL, you can save the value of the property (PointerCursor) and then when you're done, set it back.

Change the order of event handling in GWT

I have a Suggest box which has 2 hadlers: SelectionHandler for selecting items in SuggestionList and keyDownHandler on TextBox of SuggestBox. I want to prevent default action on event(for example on Enter pressed) when the suggestion list is currently showing. The problem is that SelectionEvent is always fires before KeyDownEvent and suggestion list is closed after SuggestionEvent fired, so in KeyDownEventHandler suggestion list is already closed. And I can't use prevent default action on Enter with checking the suggestion list is showing like this:
if ((nativeCode == KeyCodes.KEY_TAB || nativeCode == KeyCodes.KEY_ENTER) && display.isSuggestionListShowing()) {
event.preventDefault();
}
where display.isSuggestionListShowing() is the method which calls isShowing on SuggestBox .
So how can i change the order of event handling(Selection before KeyDown to the keyDown before Selection) in this case?
I'm assuming you mean SuggestBox instead of SuggestionList, as there is no class by that name in the gwt-user jar.
The SuggestBox uses the keydown event to provide the SelectEvent - if it can't see the keys change (from the browser, which actually picks up the user's action), it can't provide the logical selection event.
This means that reordering events doesn't really make sense - you can't have the effect before the cause. In many cases, the browser emits events in a certain order, and there is no way to change this, so you have to think differently about the problem.
(Also worth pointing out that preventDefault() only prevents the browser from doing its default behavior - other handlers will still fire as normal.)
One option would be to preview all events before they get to the SuggestBox, and cancel the event in certain cases - look into com.google.gwt.user.client.Event.addNativePreviewHandler(NativePreviewHandler) for how this can be done.
I'm not seeing any other option right away - all of the actual logic for handling the keydown is wrapped up in the inner class in the private method of com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.SuggestBox.addEventsToTextBox(), leaving no options for overriding it.