TCustomComboBox.SelStart

zero-based index to the UTF-8 character at the beginning of the selected text in the edit box.

Declaration

Source position: stdctrls.pp line 438

Description

If text is selected in the edit box for the control, this is the starting position. When no text is selected, SelStart is the cursor position and SelLength is 0 (zero).

Writing a new value to the property moves the cursor, and removes the current text selection. Set SelLength after changing SelStart, to establish a new text selection.

SelStart is a zero-based index to UTF-8 character in the Text, in contrast to the usual 1-based string indices. The value 0 means the first UTF-8 character, the value 1 means the second UTF-8 character, etc.

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