doesn't show the selection when it doesn't have focus - use this style to force
it to always show it. It doesn't do anything under other platforms.}
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxHSCROLL}}{A horizontal scrollbar will be created. No effect under GTK+.}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_LEFT}}{The text control will be left-justified (default).}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_CENTRE}}{The text control will be centre-justified.}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_RIGHT}}{The text control will be right-justified.}
\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_DONTWRAP}}{Same as {\tt wxHSCROLL} style.}
-\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_LINEWRAP}}{Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at any position (wxUniv only currently)}
-\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_WORDWRAP}}{Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at word boundaries only (wxUniv only currently)}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_LINEWRAP}}{Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at any position (wxUniv only currently).}
+\twocolitem{\windowstyle{wxTE\_WORDWRAP}}{Wrap the lines too long to be shown entirely at word boundaries only (wxUniv only currently).}
\end{twocollist}
See also \helpref{window styles overview}{windowstyles} and
\helpref{wxTextCtrl::wxTextCtrl}{wxtextctrlconstr}.
+\wxheading{wxTextCtrl text format}
+
+The multiline text controls always store the text as a sequence of lines
+separated by {\tt $\backslash$n} characters, i.e. in the Unix text format even
+on non-Unix platforms. This allows the user code to ignore the differences
+between the platforms but at a price: the indices in the control such as those
+returned by \helpref{GetInsertionPoint}{wxtextctrlgetinsertionpoint} or
+\helpref{GetSelection}{wxtextctrlgetselection} can {\bf not} be used as
+indices into the string returned by \helpref{GetValue}{wxtextctrlgetvalue} as
+they're going to be slightly off for platforms using
+{\tt $\backslash$r$\backslash$n} as separator (as Windows does), for example.
+
+Instead, if you need to obtain a substring between the $2$ indices obtained
+from the control with the help of the functions mentioned above, you should
+use \helpref{GetRange}{wxtextctrlgetrange}. And the indices themselves can
+only be passed to other methods, for example
+\helpref{SetInsertionPoint}{wxtextctrlsetinsertionpoint} or
+\helpref{SetSelection}{wxtextctrlsetselection}.
+
+To summarize: never use the indices returned by (multiline) wxTextCtrl as
+indices into the string it contains, but only as arguments to be passed back
+to the other wxTextCtrl methods.
+
\wxheading{wxTextCtrl styles}
Multi-line text controls support the styles, i.e. provide a possibility to set
\constfunc{wxString}{GetValue}{\void}
Gets the contents of the control. Notice that for a multiline text control,
-the lines will be separated by (Unix-style) $\backslash$n characters, even under
-Windows where they are separated by a $\backslash$r$\backslash$n sequence in the native control.
+the lines will be separated by (Unix-style) $\backslash$n characters, even
+under Windows where they are separated by a $\backslash$r$\backslash$n
+sequence in the native control.
\membersection{wxTextCtrl::IsEditable}\label{wxtextctrliseditable}