Text.setSelection

Sets the selection to the range specified by the given start and end indices. <p> Indexing is zero based. The range of a selection is from 0..N where N is the number of characters in the widget. </p><p> Text selections are specified in terms of caret positions. In a text widget that contains N characters, there are N+1 caret positions, ranging from 0..N. This differs from other functions that address character position such as getText () that use the usual array indexing rules. </p>

@param start the start of the range @param end the end of the range

@exception SWTException <ul> <li>ERROR_WIDGET_DISPOSED - if the receiver has been disposed</li> <li>ERROR_THREAD_INVALID_ACCESS - if not called from the thread that created the receiver</li> </ul>

  1. void setSelection(int start)
  2. void setSelection(int start, int end)
    class Text
    void
    setSelection
    (
    int start
    ,
    int end
    )
  3. void setSelection(Point selection)

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