To determine cursor positin in editable text

[epopov]

Hi,
how to determine cursor position in editable inputtext?
For example I write "The matrix" and I placed cursor before 'm' char. How can I determine using script than cursor is before 'm' char?

[antun]

There isn't an API for determining input-cursor position in an inputtext field at the moment, but there will be in the next release.

-Antun

[shak]

i.e. editext has value "mytext value" and I want to put text cursor position after "x" regardless of its current position.

[antun]

<inputtext> has a setSelection() method that you can call to position the cursor at a given location.

I believe that this method is not exposed at the top of <edittext>, you you could call the setSelection on the <inputtext> inside of <edittext> by doing field.setSelection().

BTW, there's getSelection() and getSelectionSize() methods too now.

-Antun