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DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LastChild(line as Integer, level as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Searches last child.

Searches for the next line after line, that has a folding level that is less than or equal to level and then returns the previous line number. If you set level to -1, level is set to the folding level of line line. If from is a fold point, LastChild(from, -1) returns the last line that would be in made visible or hidden by toggling the fold state.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.Line(line as Integer) as String

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Queries text of a line.

Index is zero based.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineCopy

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineCut

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineDedent   New in 26.0

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 26.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Like back tab but force the multiline behaviour.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineDelete

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineDown

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineDownExtend

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineDownRectExtend

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineDuplicate

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineEnd

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

See also:

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineEnd(line as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Queries line end position for the given line.

See also:

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineEndDisplay

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineEndDisplayExtend

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineEndExtend

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineEndPosition(line as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
This returns the position at the end of the line, before any line end characters.

If line is the last line in the document (which does not have any end of line characters) or greater, the result is the size of the document. If line is negative the result is undefined.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineEndRectExtend

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineEndWrap

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineEndWrapExtend

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineFromIndexPosition(pos as Integer, lineCharacterIndex as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Queries line from position via index.

The document line of a particular character or code unit may be found by calling LineFromIndexPosition with one of kLineCharacterIndexTypeUtf32 (1) or kLineCharacterIndexTypeUtf16 (2). The inverse action, finds the starting position of a document line either in characters or code units from the document start by calling IndexPositionFromLine with the same lineCharacterIndex argument.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineFromPosition(pos as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
This method returns the line that contains the position pos in the document.

The return value is 0 if pos <= 0.
The return value is the last line if pos is beyond the end of the document.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineIndent   New in 26.0

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 26.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Like tab but force the multiline behaviour.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineIndentation(line as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
property Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The amount of indentation on a line.

The indentation is measured in character columns, which correspond to the width of space characters.
(Read and Write computed property)

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineIndentPosition(line as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The position at the end of indentation of a line.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineLength(line as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
This returns the length of the line, including any line end characters.

If line is negative or beyond the last line in the document, the result is 0. If you want the length of the line not including any end of line characters, use LineEndPosition(line) - PositionFromLine(line).

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineReverse

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineScroll(columns as Integer, lines as Integer)

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
This will attempt to scroll the display by the number of columns and lines that you specify.

Positive line values increase the line number at the top of the screen (i.e. they move the text upwards as far as the user is concerned), Negative line values do the reverse.
The column measure is the width of a space in the default style. Positive values increase the column at the left edge of the view (i.e. they move the text leftwards as far as the user is concerned). Negative values do the reverse.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineScrollDown

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineScrollUp

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LinesJoin

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Join a range of lines indicated by the target into one line by removing line end characters.

Where this would lead to no space between words, an extra space is inserted.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LinesSplit(pixelWidth as Integer)

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Split a range of lines indicated by the target into lines that are at most pixelWidth wide.

Splitting occurs on word boundaries wherever possible in a similar manner to line wrapping. When pixelWidth is 0 then the width of the window is used.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineStart(line as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Queries line start position for the given line.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineState(Line as Integer) as Integer

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
property Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The state for each line.

As well as the 8 bits of lexical state stored for each character there is also an integer stored for each line. This can be used for longer lived parse states such as what the current scripting language is in an ASP page. Assign to LineState to set the integer value and query LineState() to get the value. Changing the value produces a ChangeLineState event.
(Read and Write computed property)

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineTranspose

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineUp

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineUpExtend

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineUpRectExtend

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LineVisible(line as Integer) as Boolean

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
Reports on the visible state of a line and returns true if it is visible and false if it is not visible.

This method has no effect on fold levels or fold flags.

DesktopScintillaControlMBS.LowerCase

Type Topic Plugin Version macOS Windows Linux iOS Targets
method Scintilla MBS Scintilla Plugin 22.0 ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ✅ Yes ❌ No Desktop only
The method to perform the action when this key is pressed.

You can call it directly to perform this action if needed, e.g. from toolbar or menu command.

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