ITextSelection Interface
Visual Studio 2012
Represents the selected text in an ITextView.
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI (in Microsoft.VisualStudio.Text.UI.dll)
The ITextSelection type exposes the following members.
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
 | ActivationTracksFocus | Determines whether IsActive should track when the ITextView gains and loses aggregate focus. The default is true. |
| ActivePoint | Gets the active point of the selection. |
| AnchorPoint | Gets the anchor point of the selection. |
| End | Gets the end point of the selection. |
| IsActive | Whether or not the selection is active. |
| IsEmpty | Determines whether the selection is zero length. |
| IsReversed | Determines whether the active point is Span.Start and the anchor point is Span.End. |
| Mode | Gets or sets the selection mode. |
| SelectedSpans | The currently-selected spans. |
| Start | Gets the start point of the selection. |
| StreamSelectionSpan | Gets the current selection as if it were a stream selection, regardless of the current selection mode. |
| TextView | Gets the text view to which this selection belongs. |
| VirtualSelectedSpans | The currently-selected spans, as VirtualSnapshotSpan objects. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| Clear | Makes the selection zero length, with a start and end position at the logical end of the current selection. |
| GetSelectionOnTextViewLine | Get the selection on the specified ITextViewLine. |
| Select(SnapshotSpan, Boolean) | Selects the text in the specified selection span. |
| Select(VirtualSnapshotPoint, VirtualSnapshotPoint) | Selects the text between the two VirtualSnapshotPoint objects. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
| SelectionChanged | Occurs when Select or Clear are called, as well as when the selection is empty and the caret is moved. The sender of the event is this ITextSelection. |
