EditPoint.MoveToAbsoluteOffset Method

Moves the active point to the given 1-based absolute character offset.

Namespace:  EnvDTE
Assembly:  EnvDTE (in EnvDTE.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Sub MoveToAbsoluteOffset ( _
    Offset As Integer _
)

'Usage
Dim instance As EditPoint 
Dim Offset As Integer

instance.MoveToAbsoluteOffset(Offset)

void MoveToAbsoluteOffset(
    int Offset
)

void MoveToAbsoluteOffset(
    [InAttribute] int Offset
)

function MoveToAbsoluteOffset(
    Offset : int
)

Parameters

• Offset
  Type: System.Int32

  Required. A character index from the start of the document, beginning at one.

Examples

Sub MoveToAbsoluteOffsetExample()
   Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument
   Dim objEditPt As EditPoint, iCtr As Integer

   ' Create a new text file.
   DTE.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")

   ' Get a handle to the new document and create an EditPoint.
   objTextDoc = DTE.ActiveDocument.Object("TextDocument")
   objEditPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint

   ' Insert ten lines of text.
   For iCtr = 1 To 10
      objEditPt.Insert("This is a test." & Chr(13))
   Next iCtr
   objEditPt.MoveToAbsoluteOffset(10)
   objEditPt.Insert("HELLO")
   objEditPt.MoveToLineAndOffset(4, 5)
   objEditPt.Insert("WORLD")
End Sub

.NET Framework Security

• Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

See Also

Reference

EditPoint Interface

EditPoint Members

EnvDTE Namespace