TextPane2.StartPoint Property

Gets the TextPoint object representing the first displayed character of the pane.

Namespace:  EnvDTE80
Assembly:  EnvDTE80 (in EnvDTE80.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
ReadOnly Property StartPoint As TextPoint
TextPoint StartPoint { get; }
property TextPoint^ StartPoint {
    TextPoint^ get ();
}
abstract StartPoint : TextPoint with get
function get StartPoint () : TextPoint

Property Value

Type: EnvDTE.TextPoint
A TextPoint object.

Examples

This example opens a text document and uses the StartPoint property of the text pane to display information about the text start point and end point of the text in the pane in a message box. For more information about how to run this example as an add-in, see How to: Compile and Run the Automation Object Model Code Examples.

Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Public Sub OnConnection(ByVal application As Object, _
 ByVal connectMode As ext_ConnectMode, ByVal addInInst As Object, _
 ByRef custom As Array) Implements IDTExtensibility2.OnConnection
    _applicationObject = CType(application, DTE2)
    _addInInstance = CType(addInInst, AddIn)
    TextPane2HeightExample(_applicationObject)
End Sub
Sub TextPane2HeightExample(ByVal dte As DTE2)
    Dim objTW As TextWindow
    Dim objPane As TextPane2
    Dim objStart As TextPoint
    Dim objTextDoc As TextDocument
    Dim objTextPt As TextPoint
    Dim objEP As EditPoint
    ' Create a new text document.
    _applicationObject.ItemOperations.NewFile("General\Text File")
    ' Get a handle to the new document and create EditPoint,
    ' TextPoint, and TextPane objects.
    objTextDoc = CType(_applicationObject.ActiveDocument.Object _
     ("TextDocument"), TextDocument)
    objEP = objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint
    objTextPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint
    ' Plug in some text.
    objEP.Insert("A test sentence.")
    objTW = CType(dte.ActiveWindow.Object, TextWindow)
    objPane = CType(objTW.ActivePane, TextPane2)
    MsgBox("The active pane is " & Str(objPane.Height)  _
    & " lines high and " & Str(objPane.Width) & " columns wide.")
    objStart = objPane.StartPoint
        MsgBox("It begins at line " & Str(objStart.Line)  _
    & ", column " & Str(objStart.LineCharOffset) & ".")
End Sub
using EnvDTE;
using EnvDTE80;
using System.Windows.Forms;
public void OnConnection(object application, 
ext_ConnectMode connectMode, object addInInst, ref Array custom)
{
    _applicationObject = (DTE2)application;
    _addInInstance = (AddIn)addInInst;
    TextPane2HeightExample(_applicationObject);
}
public void TextPane2HeightExample(DTE2 dte)
{
    TextWindow objTW;
    TextPane2 objPane;
    TextDocument objTextDoc;
    TextPoint objTextPt;
    EditPoint2 objEP;
    TextPoint objStart;
    // Create a new text document.
    _applicationObject.ItemOperations.NewFile(@"General\Text File",
 "test.txt", Constants.vsViewKindTextView);
    // Get a handle to the text document and create EditPoint2,
    // TextPoint, and TextPane2 objects.
    objTextDoc =(TextDocument)_applicationObject.ActiveDocument.Object
("TextDocument");
    objEP = (EditPoint2)objTextDoc.StartPoint.CreateEditPoint();
    objTextPt = objTextDoc.StartPoint;
    // Plug in some text.
    objEP.Insert("A test sentence.");
    objTW = (TextWindow)_applicationObject.ActiveWindow.Object;
    objPane = (TextPane2)objTW.ActivePane;
    MessageBox.Show("The active pane is " + objPane.Height.ToString() 
+ " lines high and " + objPane.Width.ToString() + " columns wide.");
    objStart = objPane.StartPoint;
    MessageBox.Show("It begins at line " + objStart.Line.ToString() 
+ ", column " + objStart.LineCharOffset.ToString() + ".");
}

.NET Framework Security

See Also

Reference

TextPane2 Interface

EnvDTE80 Namespace