[wxruby-users] Moving text on a window

[Alex Fenton]

Jason Shelton wrote:
> I am new to WxRuby, and I am reading the online WxRuby Documentation 
> for help.  I want to add a control to my application that can move 
> text between two text controls on a window.  For example, let's say 
> that I have a text/list control with 3 text strings in it, 'one', 
> 'two', and 'three'.  I want to be able to highlight 'one', click a 
> button, and have 'one' appear in another text/list control on the 
> window, and the original window should only have 'two' and 'three' 
> displayed in it now.  I can elaborate if this is not clear.  Thank you 
> in advance for any help.

Exactly how to do this depends on the type of control you're copying 
from and to. Assuming you're using Wx::ListBox, which is nice and 
simple, something like (untested):

# assuming the_button is the Wx::Button
evt_button(the_button) do
  # get the selected text from the original window
  sel_text = list_1.string_selection
  # add it to the other window
  list_2.append (sel_text)
  # delete the selection in the old window
  list_1.delete( list_1.selection )
end


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