String formatting behavior when Selection Start=Selection End [BUG]

[littlesphaeroid]

When using a property node to style text in a string, I found that the style will be applied to the entire string whenever Selection.Start = Selection.End.

Is this expected behavior?

I expect no style to be applied if there is no text selected. When selection start=selection end, this is equivalent to having a cursor placed between two characters in the string. When applying styles manually under this circumstance, no style will be applied to any character.

See attached example. LV2014

[Mark_Yedinak]

I would guess that this is the expected behavior. Otherwise you would have to always set the selection positions in order to change the style. Therefore the default behavior assumes to set the style for the entire string when start equals end. You can try an experiment and see if the style is changed if you force end to be less than start. 

[Ben]

Help says

"

Text selection specified in terms of character positions for the beginning of selection (inclusive) and end of selection (not inclusive). If you set the start and end to be the same, LabVIEW inserts a caret into the text.

"

When testing I do NOT see the caret.

Ben

[littlesphaeroid]

Hi Mark, good point. If end is less than start,t eh entire string is changed. Again, not expected, as I don't see why end can't be less than start. Here I've set a range specifically and gotten an unexpected result, but it is easy to work around. Just one of those gotchas, I guess.

[littlesphaeroid]

Not sure what is meant by a carat (probably "^"). but then that would be a really weird behavior, so I'm glad the help is wrong. What maybe should happen is that LabVIEW would insert a cursor. This is of course quite reasonable, though I believe actually selecting text is a different node than what I'm trying to do here.