ITextSelection Interface

Definition

Namespace:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor

Assembly:

Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI.dll

Represents the selected text in an ITextView

public interface class ITextSelection

public interface class ITextSelection

__interface ITextSelection

public interface ITextSelection

type ITextSelection = interface

Public Interface ITextSelection

Properties

ActivationTracksFocus	Determines whether IsActive should track when the ITextView gains and loses aggregate focus. The default is true.
ActivePoint	Gets the active point of the selection.
AnchorPoint	Gets the anchor point of the selection.
End	Gets the end point of the selection.
IsActive	Whether or not the selection is active.
IsEmpty	Determines whether the selection is empty.
IsReversed	Is true if the ActivePoint comes before the AnchorPoint.
Mode	Gets or sets the selection mode.
SelectedSpans	The currently-selected spans.
Start	Gets the start point of the selection.
StreamSelectionSpan	Get the current selection as if it were a stream selection, regardless of the current selection mode.
TextView	Gets the text view to which this selection belongs.
VirtualSelectedSpans	The currently-selected spans, as VirtualSnapshotSpan objects.

Methods

Clear()	Clears the selection.
GetSelectionOnTextViewLine(ITextViewLine)	Get the selection on a particular ITextViewLine.
Select(SnapshotSpan, Boolean)	Selects the text in the specified selectionSpan.
Select(VirtualSnapshotPoint, VirtualSnapshotPoint)	Select from the anchor point to the active point.

Events

SelectionChanged

Occurs when Select or Clear start to be called. The sender of the event will be this ITextSelection.