6 ex_gui_textarea_selection_8c example
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ex_gui_textarea_selection.c

n_gui text area selection query An application that binds Ctrl+C to an action of its own has to decide, with a text field focused, whether the press is the field's copy or its own. The field's copy only does something when text is selected, so n_gui_textarea_has_selection() is the question to ask: yes leaves the key to the field, no lets the application take it.

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#define ALLEGRO_UNSTABLE 1

#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <string.h> #include <unistd.h>

#include "nilorea/n_common.h" #include "nilorea/n_log.h" #include "nilorea/n_gui.h"

static int log_level = LOG_ERR; static int failures = 0;

static void expect_true(const char* what, int ok) { if (!ok) { n_log(LOG_ERR, "FAIL: %s", what); failures++; } else { n_log(LOG_INFO, "ok: %s", what); } }

static int process_args(int argc, char** argv) { int opt = 0;

while ((opt = getopt(argc, argv, "V:")) != -1) {
    if (opt == 'V') {
        log_level = atoi(optarg);
    } else {
        return -1;
    }
}
return 0;

}

static void ctrl_key(N_GUI_CTX* gui, int keycode) { ALLEGRO_EVENT ev;

memset(&ev, 0, sizeof(ev));
ev.type = ALLEGRO_EVENT_KEY_CHAR;
ev.keyboard.keycode = keycode;
ev.keyboard.modifiers = ALLEGRO_KEYMOD_CTRL;
n_gui_process_event(gui, ev);

}

int main(int argc, char** argv) { set_log_level(LOG_ERR); if (process_args(argc, argv) != 0) { fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s [-V LOG_LEVEL]\n", argv[0]); return 2; } set_log_level(log_level);

if (!al_init() || !al_init_font_addon()) {
    n_log(LOG_ERR, "allegro init failed");
    return 1;
}
ALLEGRO_FONT* font = al_create_builtin_font();
if (!font) return 1;
N_GUI_CTX* gui = n_gui_new_ctx(font);
if (!gui) {
    al_destroy_font(font);
    return 1;
}
n_gui_set_display_size(gui, 800.0f, 600.0f);
int win = n_gui_add_window(gui, "W", 0.0f, 0.0f, 300.0f, 200.0f);
int field = n_gui_add_textarea(gui, win, 10.0f, 10.0f, 200.0f, 24.0f, 0, 64, NULL, NULL);
int label = n_gui_add_label(gui, win, "not a text area", 10.0f, 40.0f, 200.0f, 20.0f, N_GUI_ALIGN_LEFT);

n_gui_textarea_set_text(gui, field, "Mont Blanc at dawn");
expect_true("a field with only a caret has nothing selected", !n_gui_textarea_has_selection(gui, field));

n_gui_textarea_set_selection(gui, field, 0, 9);
expect_true("a range set from code is a selection", n_gui_textarea_has_selection(gui, field));

n_gui_textarea_set_selection(gui, field, 9, 0);
expect_true("a range set backwards is one too", n_gui_textarea_has_selection(gui, field));

n_gui_textarea_set_selection(gui, field, 4, 4);
expect_true("an empty range is none", !n_gui_textarea_has_selection(gui, field));

/* Ctrl+A with the field focused selects all of it, as a person would. */
n_gui_set_focus(gui, field);
ctrl_key(gui, ALLEGRO_KEY_A);
expect_true("Ctrl+A selects the text", n_gui_textarea_has_selection(gui, field));

n_gui_textarea_set_text(gui, field, "");
n_gui_textarea_set_selection(gui, field, 0, 0);
expect_true("an empty field has nothing selected", !n_gui_textarea_has_selection(gui, field));

expect_true("a label is not a text area", !n_gui_textarea_has_selection(gui, label));
expect_true("a bad id has nothing selected", !n_gui_textarea_has_selection(gui, 99999));

n_gui_destroy_ctx(&gui);
al_destroy_font(font);
if (failures) {
    fprintf(stderr, "ex_gui_textarea_selection: %d failure(s)\n", failures);
    return 1;
}
printf("ex_gui_textarea_selection: ok\n");
return 0;

}


_Filename: ex_gui_textarea_selection.c_