Re: [Fenfire-dev] Ugly copypaste problem

[Tuomas Lukka]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 10:01:56AM +0300, Matti Katila wrote:
> 
> Selecting text area needs 3 selectable areas:
> asdfasdfaXXXXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> XXXXXXasdfasdfasfas   where X is selected.
> 
> Currently we provide only one area to be selected
> but what's the best choige for those two addition areas:
> copypaste 2 more, using array or List?
> 
> Here is one solution but it's rather ugly, I think.

I agree that it's ugly.

The shape you show is quite special - why not have a special
routine:

        setTextArea(...)

with enough parameters (i.e. 4 x coordinates and 4 y coordinates)
to get the whole area?
        
        Tuomas