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Interactive Tasks: Supporting Carets and Highlighting Text

This chapter provides information on how to support user interaction with the text your application draws onscreen. Handling the caret and highlighting text are discussed in the following sections:

• “Positioning the Caret” describes which functions to use to determine the insertion point and move the caret.

• “Highlighting Selected Text ” discusses how to draw highlighted text.

Before you read this chapter, you should be familiar with the tasks described in Chapter 4, “Basic Tasks: Working With Objects and Drawing Text.”

Contents:

Positioning the Caret
Highlighting Selected Text

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