Re: Text within objects are not selectable?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 09.12.2011 21:12, David Robles (davroble) wrote:
> Let me start my mentioning how great this diagram software is.  I wanted
> to know if there's any way to select (highlight) chunks of text within
> objects and therefore be allowed to execute cut/copy/delete on that
> highlighted text.
Only whole objects can be higlighted with the current system.

> I use this to diagram our lab network and it's
> important to be able to cut/copy as well as delete specific chunks of
> text without actually using backspace repeatedly.
You could also use "Edit/Cut Text" etc.

> If this is not an
> implemented feature I would like to participate in trying to make it
> work.
The Text object is defined in lib/text.[ch] It could possibly be extended 
to not only hold the cursor positin in the text (Text::cursor_pos) but also 
an addtional text selection.

The drawing of the text selection would need to e placed into the 
interactive renderers. See: lib/diagdkrenderer.c and 
plug-ins/cairo/diacairo-renderer.c.

I'm not aware of anyone actually working on this.

HTH,
        Hans

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