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In User Interface Design, text selection is the method of handpicking a portion of text, most commonly for the purpose of copying/cutting/pasting.

In User Interface Design, text selection is the method of handpicking a portion of text that will be further acted upon by the user. The selection is done by the interaction devices provided by the user interface.

Text selection is most commonly associated with the user actions of copying, cutting, and pasting. In Graphical User Interface, text selection is performed by a mouse or touch represented as cursors.

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How to skip certain text while allowing selection for surrounding text?

For example:
foo bar hello world
When performing mouse selection from…
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Qt selection handles on desktop using PySide?

I would like to add selection handles to a QTextEdit widget so that after the user selects text he or she can expand or shrink the selection in either direction. I understand support for this functionality has been formally added to Qt, but I only…
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Textview selectable share option crashing

I want to share selected text in textview with the text selection toolbar. This is my textview.xml
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Firefox WebExtension: selectionText in contextMenus only returns 150 characters

I have build a small WebExtension for Firefox (52.2.1 32-Bit) mainly based on an example provided by the Mozilla Developers Network. It is a ContextMenu which allows the user to copy multiple texts (by selecting the respective text and then choosing…
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How to get user selection in the Microsoft Word Online documents

I'm creating a Chrome extension that should interact with the user selection in the Microsoft Word Online documents - add new highlighting instead of the natural selection highlighting and then remove it. The problem is that I'm not able to get the…
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Text Selection is not working on Single Cell - ng2-table

Here is Data Table for angular2, written by Valor software. http://valor-software.com/ng2-table/ And this is Demo. I tried to select text in single cell by mouse click and drag (!important - inside single cell. on multiple cell is working) It was…
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How to make Hashtag highlighting in visual basic 2012

I want to highlight the text inside the text Box when a "#" is typed followed by any character as Facebook does. I tried to use SelectionStart ,SelectionLength and SelectionBackColor properties but I am facing many problems. I need a help, what is…
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how to make javafx table cell selectable so that its contents can be copied

I am playing with the examples from PRO-JavaFX 8, an excellent book by the way. I have a table cell with some text, and I would like to make the text selectable so that I can copy it.
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In MFC, for an initial focus on a checked RadioButton, setting the text label to be "highlighted"

I am using a Win32 app with MFC in C++ and utilizing Forms with a series of Dialog Screens. My problem is, when I have a series of these screens in sequence, I want the initial focus and its associated text label to be set on a particular radio…
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Android text selection receiver

Is it possible to make Service which will get notified when text selection anywhere in Android system (google chrome, other apps) appears? I thought to make BroadcastReceiver with PROCESS_TEXT action but it does not work.
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Insert value into last textarea where cursor was

Basically this question is pretty similar to: Insert value into TEXTAREA where cursor was JSFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/rQXrJ/1/ The thing is, I can't get it to work for multiple textareas. I've tried multiple combinations of things but still no…
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Text selection toolbar disappears after scrolling on marshmallow devices

To display a one page story in my app, I am using a recylerview with each viewholder containing a text paragraph or an image. @Override public void bindItem(Story story, Asset asset) { super.bindItem(articleBodyBlock, asset); …
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Windows Store aps - select text and tap

I have a problem with TextBlock text selection (Windows Store apps, C#). If I set IsTextSelectionEnabled = True, then I can't Tap on the text. I need to be able to open popup on taping text and select this text, but it seems like I can't do both. Is…
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IsTextSelectionEnabled in WPF TextBlock

How to add the Property IsTextSelectionEnabled in WPF TextBlock. It shows me an compile time error "The property 'IsTextSelectionEnabled' was not found in type 'TextBlock'" Note: I found the Property IsTextSelectionEnabled in Microsoft …
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Why won't my EditText element accept any input on Android?

Here's the code for my EditText element: The entire app builds and…
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