how can we know non-printing characters, when using cursor

[naveen_srma]

hi,

Im using a view cursor, and when i select a character one by one i want to know if its a non-printing character or not. Like i want to know if its a tab, newline. etc.

cursor dont tell this thing, any way i can know about non-printing characters.

plz tell.
Thanks.

[Westland]

What do you mean with this ?

[naveen_srma]

Actually i want know non printing character through text cursor (tha i will convert by getViewCursor) one by one when i moved current cursor position on left or right at that time cursor tell me its a non printing character.

So i think u can understand what i want..........

[Robert Tucker]

I've not tried it, but can you not do something along the lines of creating a text cursor:

"get the current cursor position in the GUI and create a text cursor from it"
http://api.openoffice.org/docs/DevelopersGuide/BasicAndDialogs/BasicAndDialogs.xhtml

moving the cursor across the character:

oCursor.goRight(1,FALSE)
oCursor.goLeft(1,FALSE)

and getting it to print out the one character "string".

[JohnV]

You need to examine the ASCII value of the character captured by the cursor.
Do While cursor.goRight(1,true)
Print ASC(cursor.String)
cursor.collapseToEnd
Loop

Here is a macro that will find all nonprinting except paragraph breaks.