finding cursor position in a multiline TextBox

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How can i find the caret position in a multiline edit box. suppose i have a multiline text box, which contains some text. i want to insert some input some text at the caret position.

I am able to append the text at the end, but not middle of the text,

how can i achieve this.

Posted 3-Apr-11 4:23am

Prateek011

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Wendelius · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-03T04:32:00

Solution 1

SelectionStart[^] property of the textbox should help.

Posted 3-Apr-11 4:32am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy 3-Apr-11 10:40am

Good answer! 5+
Proposed as solution.

Wendelius 3-Apr-11 10:42am

Thank you :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Apr-11 0:47am

As simple as that, a 5.
--SA

Wendelius 5-Apr-11 13:35pm

Thanks :)