How to get the x,y position of a word in a text field ?

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The "selectedLoc"?


Craig Newman



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From: Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com>
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Sent: Thu, Sep 19, 2013 3:08 am
Subject: Re: How to get the x,y position of a word in a text field ?



On 19/09/2013, at 4:59 PM, jbv at souslelogo.com wrote:

> I have a text field in which users can enter free text and I need
> to detect typos in that text and display a list of possible
> replacement words under the first word with a typo, this list being
> left aligned with the left side of the word.

Use the formattedRect of chunk

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