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[mstaszew]

Is there a method that will allow me to pass in a line/col combination and return the character position/offset from the beggining of the edit buffer?

Thanks.

[econtrol]

To convert line/col to position in text buffer use TSyntaxMemo.CaretPosToStrPos(col, line).
Another coordinate functions

function MouseToCaret(X, Y: integer): TPoint;
Returns caret position (column, line) at the window coordinates.

function CaretToMouse(cX, cY: integer): TPoint;
Returns top-left corner of the caharacter position in window coordinates.

function CaretPosToStrPos(const p: TPoint): integer;
Returns zero-based character position in text buffer at the specified caret position. If caret is out of text result points on the line break.

function StrPosToCaretPos(p: integer): TPoint;
Returns caret position (column, line) of the character at specified index in text buffer.

Michael.