Java tutorial
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT; import org.eclipse.swt.custom.StyledText; import org.eclipse.swt.events.VerifyEvent; import org.eclipse.swt.events.VerifyListener; import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridData; import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridLayout; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display; import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell; public class StyledTextListenerVerify { public static void main(String[] args) { final Display display = new Display(); final Shell shell = new Shell(display); shell.setLayout(new GridLayout()); StyledText styledText = new StyledText(shell, SWT.WRAP | SWT.BORDER); styledText.setLayoutData(new GridData(SWT.FILL, SWT.FILL, true, true)); styledText.setText("text"); // use a verify listener to keep the offsets up to date styledText.addVerifyListener(new VerifyListener() { public void verifyText(VerifyEvent e) { System.out.println(e.start); System.out.println(e.start); System.out.println(e.text.length()); } }); shell.setSize(400, 400); shell.open(); while (!shell.isDisposed()) { if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep(); } display.dispose(); } }