ITextCaret.MoveTo Method (ITextViewLine, Double, Boolean)

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06/27/2014

Moves the caret to the best CaretPosition for the specified x-coordinate and text line.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Function MoveTo ( _
    textLine As ITextViewLine, _
    xCoordinate As Double, _
    captureHorizontalPosition As Boolean _
) As CaretPosition

CaretPosition MoveTo(
    ITextViewLine textLine,
    double xCoordinate,
    bool captureHorizontalPosition
)

CaretPosition MoveTo(
    ITextViewLine^ textLine, 
    double xCoordinate, 
    bool captureHorizontalPosition
)

abstract MoveTo : 
        textLine:ITextViewLine * 
        xCoordinate:float * 
        captureHorizontalPosition:bool -> CaretPosition

function MoveTo(
    textLine : ITextViewLine, 
    xCoordinate : double, 
    captureHorizontalPosition : boolean
) : CaretPosition

Parameters

textLine
Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Formatting.ITextViewLine

The text line that will contain the caret.

xCoordinate
Type: System.Double

The x-coordinate of the caret in the text rendering coordinate system.

captureHorizontalPosition
Type: System.Boolean

true if the caret should capture its horizontal position for subsequent moves up or down, false if the caret should retain its previously-captured horizontal position.

Return Value

Type: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.Editor.CaretPosition
A CaretPosition that contains the valid values of the caret after the move has occurred.

Exceptions

Exception	Condition
ArgumentOutOfRangeException	xCoordinate is NaN.

Remarks

This method takes care of UTF-16 surrogate pairs and combining character sequences.

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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