TextEdit.SelLength

From Xojo Documentation

Property (As Integer )
aTextEdit.SelLength = newIntegerValue
or
IntegerValue = aTextEdit.SelLength

Supported for all project types and targets.

The number of highlighted characters.

Notes

A SelLength of 0 means an insertion point rather than a selection. A value greater than the number of characters in the control means that the selection is from SelStart to the end of the control.

Example

This example selects the first 10 characters of TextArea1.

TextArea1.SelStart = 0
TextArea1.SelLength = 10